Bud Selig will reportedly retire:
BREAKING: Bud Selig to formally announce retirement later today. He will step down in January 2015. |http://t.co/0Bouj5FZeq @BreakingNewsOf course, he's said that before. And he's got 15 months to change his mind...or launch other adjectives at the Tampa Bay region.
— CBS New York (@CBSNewYork) September 26, 2013
And closer to home, the Glazers have indicated they will ensure a season-free of Bucs blackouts:
BREAKING NEWS! All Buccaneers Remaining Home Games To Be Televised Locally! http://t.co/Uslees5vVGFor many, this kind of commitment is three years too late, but its welcomed news nonetheless for both Bucs fans and for frustrated taxpayers.
— Tampa Bay Buccaneers (@TBBuccaneers) September 26, 2013
Wouldn't surprise me a bit if Selig tried to make some grand gesture to solve the "Tampa Bay problem" once and for all prior to his departure, in an effort to burnish his tainted legacy.
ReplyDeleteIn the immortal words of Samuel L. Jackson in "Jurassic Park," think we in Tampa Bay may want to . . . hang on to our butts.
We need to throw Selig for trying to solve the rays stadium issues. Low class st.pete owes Selig big. Brendan is clearly an idiot and a st.pete resident. St.Pete should apoligize to Sternberg, Selig, and MLB for the humiliating attendance figures they have posted and accept there status as the joke of the baseball world.
ReplyDeleteSt.Pete doesn't need to "apologize", though they should THANK them for having the opportunity to house a major business in it's back yard to help bring in lots in revenue & help pay off their dome at the same time. The benefits will even stretch for generations after the Rays move across the bay...
DeleteAnonymous clearly has zero basic communication skills. Way to back up your position with clear, concise truths and facts.
ReplyDeleteSelig has done an awful job of stewarding the game of baseball. He's become nothing but a bully who actively ruins the places unlucky enough to host a pro MLB team.
The Bucs are now going to allow us to watch their rotten team lose horribly for a quarter until we shut it off and find something more interesting to do with our weekend. I suppose that's a 'win'.
Though I disagree w/ some of him & his people's decisions like the All-Star Game winner given HFA in the WS, and their blind eye towards steroids back in the day, but he's helped accomplish a lot for the game. He's tried to tackle PED's more then any other major sport (and let's not be naive to not think they're using in the NBA, NHL, and NFL), he helped bring MLB into the tech age, 20 new stadiums were built under his watch, more playoff teams, helped even the playing field, the WBC, and so on. Look, I know it's cool to bash the wealthy big wigs of the world, but Bud has done more good then just take to the media to try to the Rays get out of their contact so they & Tampa can make more then now, and has done more good then we have for people...
DeleteAnd, (to discredit his opinion) I bet Paula hasn't even watched a Bucs or Rays game this year. Though a few years to late, we should thank the Glazers for helping get the Bucs back on local TV!
You have to go to Wall Street CEO offices to find anyone who has done their jobs as poorly, and yet somehow managed to both keep them and gotten rich, like Bud Selig. Think about it. Strikes. Steroids. Congressional investigations. The destruction of the most hallowed record book in sports.
DeleteHe has presided over the most corrupt era in baseball history. There is absolutely nothing to celebrate about his stewardship. He can't be gone fast enough.
I understand you feel cool trying be Debby Downer, but he "has done" his job better then you could of. Again, I understand talking crap about a wealthy boss is cool, but let's keep it real, the "strikes", "steroids", and "congressional investigations" were just as much the players faults! It's easy to slam Bud for the whole steroids, but it's not like you, me, or even the media caught on either, and in the past decade he's tried harder to reveal & clean baseball then Stern, Rodger, and Gary has in their sports. And "the most corrupt era in baseball" has to be in the early 1900's when the league had a gambling problem, and then when the mafia helped the Yankees. Though let's not act like you nor I won't of taken PED's to be better, and make more...
DeleteSelig may have been the most successful MLB commissioner in some regards...he took the league from a $1B business to a $8B business. Much of it was from convincing local municipalities to build stadium after stadium.
Delete"much of it was from convincing local municipalities to build stadium after stadium", though it's a shame you'll never understand the facts that it didn't take much to convince the people because of the return revenue on the cities investment for generations...
DeleteBecause if they didn't build new stadiums, the teams would vanquish?
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