Bud Selig and George W. Bush have something in common. Both are totally inept at their jobs. Selig phoned in another one last night as Game 5 of the World Series was suspended. 5 innings have been played and there are still 4 more to be played at some point (hopefully) in the near future. The question every baseball fan wants to know is… ‘Why was the game started in the first place?’ It’s 2008, we have Doplar 7000’s. We know when it’s going to rain and for how long. Why even chance that this would happen? Well “Bad Decision” Bud Strikes again. What makes this writer mad the most is that Selig never takes on any blame or ever considers he made a bad decision. Sounds like another leader we all know…(cough…Bush…cough). I have decided to list the blunders Selig has made as either acting commissioner or official commissioner.

1.     1993: One of Selig’s first move as acting commissioner was to reinstate George Steinbrenner. If you don’t remember Steinbrenner was banned for life from Major League Baseball by then commissioner Fay Vincent for conspiring against Dave Winnfield. Steinbrenner supposedly paid a known gambler and Mafia member to dig up dirt on the Hall of Famer because he didn’t like Winnfield. Seems like it’s just a case of George being George so Selig pardoned him. All the while the Major League hit king Pete Rose can’t get a plaque in the Hall of Fame for things he didn’t even do as a player. So here is a case of siding with ownership over the players.

1994: The MLBPA strikes. So a former owner, whose family still has stake in a team, is supposed to fairly preside over a labor dispute between the players union and the team owners? Who do you think he was fighting for? We lost a World Series, a Home Run race, and the Montreal Expos with a shot at the pennant because greedy owners need new collective bargaining agreements.

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