Almost forty years ago commissioner Bowie Kuhn negated deals which would have sent star players of the Oakland As to the New York Yankees. The commissioner held that these deals were not in the best interests of baseball. Even back then many wondered if the deals were killed only because they involved the Yankees.
Yesterday we learned that the Florida Marlins for the third time in their brief history were dumping salary. The first two times it was immediately after winning the MBL finals, aka, World Series. This time it was after getting local institutions to back the building of a new ball park for the Marlins.
Have they no shame?
And what, if anything, will the current commissioner do? It shows you how low baseball has sunk if we are reduced to calling on the spirit of such a non-entity as Bowie Kuhn to save baseball from this bad behavior.
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/simon+and+garfunkel/mrs+robinson_10215738.html
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio
A nation turns it's lonely eyes to you (Woo, woo, woo)
What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson
Joltin' Joe has left and gone away
(Hey, hey, hey...hey, hey, hey)
Send "Mrs. Robinson" Rin
1 comment:
This is what happens when you put an owner (Bud Selig) in as commissioner, and that's the way the owners wanted it. Kuhn did what he did because it was in the best interests of baseball. All Selig cares about is what is in the best interests of the owners. The last real commissioner was Fay Vincent.
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