Friday, May 07, 2004
Quick Reversal Reveals Game's Self-Hatred
George Vecsey of the New York Times uses MLB's reversal on the Spider-Man issue to call its leadership both clueless and gutless:
"Commissioner Bud Selig and his advisers could not maintain their crass posture for 24 hours. They heard people gnashing their teeth in rage, and they heard people mocking them, and all their plans and their charts and their contracts, and they just gave up. No biggie, Selig said."
"All the money that could be going to Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez and other actually talented people is going to clueless executives who hatch (or at least submit to) a plan that cannot stand 24 hours of ridicule."
"When Selig attempted to eliminate the Minnesota Twins, which would have guaranteed a huge profit for Carl Pohlad, who had lent money to Selig, not one owner in baseball would describe this as the blatant conflict of interest that it was.
Now we discover that the Brewers, owned by the Selig family, are hemorrhaging money. Perhaps they could put 'Spider-Man' all over the empty seats in the new ballpark in Milwaukee. How long before they put 'Spider-Man' all over the Brewers' uniforms? "
"Baseball is having an identity crisis. Baseball does not believe in itself. Baseball will sell the whiteness of its bases for a measly $2.5 million. But when America guffaws, baseball backs off."
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George Vecsey of the New York Times uses MLB's reversal on the Spider-Man issue to call its leadership both clueless and gutless:
"Commissioner Bud Selig and his advisers could not maintain their crass posture for 24 hours. They heard people gnashing their teeth in rage, and they heard people mocking them, and all their plans and their charts and their contracts, and they just gave up. No biggie, Selig said."
"All the money that could be going to Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez and other actually talented people is going to clueless executives who hatch (or at least submit to) a plan that cannot stand 24 hours of ridicule."
"When Selig attempted to eliminate the Minnesota Twins, which would have guaranteed a huge profit for Carl Pohlad, who had lent money to Selig, not one owner in baseball would describe this as the blatant conflict of interest that it was.
Now we discover that the Brewers, owned by the Selig family, are hemorrhaging money. Perhaps they could put 'Spider-Man' all over the empty seats in the new ballpark in Milwaukee. How long before they put 'Spider-Man' all over the Brewers' uniforms? "
"Baseball is having an identity crisis. Baseball does not believe in itself. Baseball will sell the whiteness of its bases for a measly $2.5 million. But when America guffaws, baseball backs off."
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