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Bud Selig is an asshole
Eliot Rosewater
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He should be in SF right now. He's got a fucking job and he should be doing it.
I think Pete Rose would make a good commissioner as his replacement.... I mean, the guy only bet on his own team. It's not like he was throwing games or shaving points. Isn't that what everyone else is doing anyway...betting on their own team? I mean, if you don't win you get fired. At least on the managerial level. So they're all betting that they're gonna win.
Okay, Pete Rose rant aside, I still think Selig is a giant asshole (no pun intended) for not being in SF right now.
I think Pete Rose would make a good commissioner as his replacement.... I mean, the guy only bet on his own team. It's not like he was throwing games or shaving points. Isn't that what everyone else is doing anyway...betting on their own team? I mean, if you don't win you get fired. At least on the managerial level. So they're all betting that they're gonna win.
Okay, Pete Rose rant aside, I still think Selig is a giant asshole (no pun intended) for not being in SF right now.
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and if you've ever read anything outside of just being baseball players, Bonds and Aaron are at complete polar opposites. from day one, Aaron has been a 100% class act. and from day one, Bonds has been a 100% dick. Bonds has been an ass to pretty much everyone, and then he tries to make himself a victim when people turn on him. Aaron actually WAS a victim in a completely different era, and he rose above it. he never complained publicly about how he was treated, he always carried himself with dignity and treated people kind. I've met him, I know. Bonds should be ashamed to think he should even be considered anywhere close to the same level as Hank Aaron. in this case, Selig is right.
Bonds isn't half the man Aaron is, and in the minds of most fans that record is still going to belong to Aaron.
I don't care for either.
As far as I know, it hasn't been proven that he's broken any baseball rules or regulations. He's still playing baseball.
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Excellent post. Perfectly said.
Barry who? I'd love to be in SF right now wearing an asterisk t-shirt. If Selig skipping the game diminishes Bond's acheivement, I'm glad he isn't there.
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Pete Rose was an amazing baseball player. Asshole or not he belongs in the HOF. You said it yourself, they wanted a reason to keep him out.
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Personally, I don't care where Selig is when Bonds breaks the record. I've gotten a little sick of the whole campaign by the MLB to whip everybody into excitement over this. "We're carrying every Bonds at-bat!" Whoop-de-doo. Very few people outside of San Francisco want to see that at-bat. Most of the country either doesn't care or thinks it will be a shame when it happens.
As for Rose ... yeah, he was a great player, but I can only care about so many things, ya know? Whether or not a not-very-nice man makes it into the HOF isn't on my list. If he'd treated people better, it wouldn't be a problem. If Bonds had treated people better, the whole country would be cheering instead of jeering. Moral of the story: no matter how good you are at what you do, it still pays to be a decent human being.
And btw, I think Selig is a jerk too, but for reasons other than this. This I really don't care about.
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I can bag on Selig for a number of reasons....this ain't one of them.
Pete Rose is an entirely different story all together, and for that I could go on for days about what an asshole Bud Selig is.
As for Bonds, the players union does protect the players and their illegal use of enhancement drugs, but the owners could do something if they wanted, and all the focus on Bonds benefits the owners, if that much focus was on the entire problem in baseball, then they might have to take action or lose money.
when it comes down to it, it's all about money, the purest baseball view is a farce now, nothing pure in baseball anymore.
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nothing is pure in baseball anymore... and it seems absurd to compare todays records to past records in baseball. how can you compare a mans batting average to the batting average of a ban who hit when the fielders did not have webbing in their gloves? or when the starting pitcher went 9 innings, when they took a bus from game to game instead of an airplane? when the training eqipment was different? baseball has juiced the balls to go furthur, so why not juice the players. it is simply not the same game. night games, artificial turf, domed stadiums, baseball in colorado, why even bother to compare todays records to records set when none of that existed? these play as much if not more of a factor in player performance than steroids do.... it is just the evolution of the game.
Going down in history in a ocean of "boos" must really feel great!
There were greater men before you that had you position but had a greater appreciation for the game, and did just as well if not better then you in an age that required no less then showing up to the ball park and giving it your best.
Fuck you and your body armor you wear as you hang over the plate. If anyone deserves to be hit with a 100 mph fastball it's you, you asshole.
Fuck you as you treat those few people that support you like shit. Who the fuck do you think your are? You made it buddy! You got what you wanted...the publicity, the fame, the fortune...but you know what? You can't hack it! You will go down as the biggest disgrace to professional sports ever.
Deny it all you want asshole, we all know you are lying and that's why people will continue to boo you. Those that are naive will learn in time. Look at Bush supporters, it only took them 7 years and 3,000 people dead...and now 25% of the country still supports him...
Shit, bad example.
Fuck you Bonds! I hope that there is some way for you to never hit a home run again. I wished that before you tied Aaron. All I know is that if I was a pitcher I would advise you to be on your toes because there is no doubt you would have one up and in.
Two records came to mind while reading that:
Ted Williams hittting .400
and
Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak.
Both those records are well over 50 years old.
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you know what guey. you are by far the most misguided fellow on this board, but I completely agree with you here.
I'm not guided.
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Yes, but many of those records (HR not withstanding) are still pure, because for every advance that has happened to help one side, there is usually a balance.
Sure, the gloves have improved, making hits harder, but artificial turf makes hits easier. Training equipment makes practice more effective, but guys 50-100 years ago were not hitting off 2-3 guys on every team hitting at least 95 MPH. Domed stadiums help the defense and the pitching as much as it helps the hitting. Guys may have gone 9 innings back then... which was an advantage for the hitters. Now guys are essentially hitting off fresh pitchers every at bat.
Baseball is probably the most pure of sports. Basketball adds 3 point lines, changes the way things are called, adds new circles and zones. The NFL changes what is a penalty every year, uses instant replay, and tinkers with rules. The NHL moves lines, adds penalties, changes the way its called in the playoffs, etc...
Baseball, for all its faults, is a game you could bring a guy from 1925 and he would still know most of the rules, and what was going on. None of the other sports could say that.
I disagree with the 'gloves have improved/making hits harder' part, but other than that, nicely stated sentiment.
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eh, i just said that to address his point. I think the gloves aspect of it plays a very very minimal role, if at all. If anything, it only helps protect the hand so it results in fewer injuries for defensive players.
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