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Originally Posted by Skahtboi
You could, but I could also counter with his so called successes. My point is, look at the history of the game. It is rife with conflict and greedy owners manuevering to get more for less out of the players. There also exist all sorts of conspiracies by owners throughout time and collusion by the very people entrusted to prevent these sorts of things. (League presidents, when they existed, and commissioners.) Do you really think the names Landis and Frick and Kuhn are any more deserving of respect than Selig?
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I'd put the pretend commissioner at the bottom of the list in terms of integrity and operating in the "best interests of baseball" of any MLB commissioner in my time as a somewhat informed fan (meaning my adulthood).
I realize that last sentiment ("best interests...") is ill-defined and has been used in the past for all kinds of power plays, etc., but apart from his seeming near complete lack of any personal integrity (based on his actions), he has failed the game in many, many ways from the hostile attitude toward the players union, to the lack of any real check on the free-spending ways of the Yankee$ and the Red $ox, to encouraging (at best through knowing wink-wink, at worst through collusion) the use of performance enhancing drugs to rebuild fan interest after he presided over the near destruction of the game.