Friday, May 07, 2004
Selig on A's Future, "Spider-Man 2"
Straight from the horse's...er, mouth, courtesy of Barry Bloom at MLB.com:
Bud on the Spider-Man hubbub:
"We need to keep the focus on the field right now. We're going ahead with the promotion. We'll take the (logo) off the bases. If it bothered some people, frankly it isn't worth a great debate about it."
"We lost, okay? Shut up and move on."
Bud on the Giants' territorial rights:
"I'm very sensitive about market areas. I don't want to mislead anybody about that. The (Giants') territories are theirs. One thing about our rules, you can't start to bend them."
Except for the cross-ownership rules and the rules against undisclosed borrowing from fellow owners, right?
Bud on Oakland's need for a new ballpark:
""Even before Steve took me on a tour (Thursday) it was obvious just from reading the Oakland financial statement that they're not generating enough revenue for this franchise to be able to compete. That can be popular or unpopular, but that's a fact. Only those who look at statements understand why."
And to think that long-time insiders like Bud accuse "statheads" of burying their heads in columns of numbers rather than watching the games...
Bud on Peter Angelos and Washington:
"Peter Angelos has been unfairly chastised. He articulated a view that anybody who owned the Baltimore Orioles would articulate. But he won't (block a move to D.C.), nor has he ever threatened to. The rest is up to the relocation committee and ultimately to me."
Okay, folks, if the ultimate decision isn't to your liking, you now know where to throw the tomatoes...
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Straight from the horse's...er, mouth, courtesy of Barry Bloom at MLB.com:
Bud on the Spider-Man hubbub:
"We need to keep the focus on the field right now. We're going ahead with the promotion. We'll take the (logo) off the bases. If it bothered some people, frankly it isn't worth a great debate about it."
"We lost, okay? Shut up and move on."
Bud on the Giants' territorial rights:
"I'm very sensitive about market areas. I don't want to mislead anybody about that. The (Giants') territories are theirs. One thing about our rules, you can't start to bend them."
Except for the cross-ownership rules and the rules against undisclosed borrowing from fellow owners, right?
Bud on Oakland's need for a new ballpark:
""Even before Steve took me on a tour (Thursday) it was obvious just from reading the Oakland financial statement that they're not generating enough revenue for this franchise to be able to compete. That can be popular or unpopular, but that's a fact. Only those who look at statements understand why."
And to think that long-time insiders like Bud accuse "statheads" of burying their heads in columns of numbers rather than watching the games...
Bud on Peter Angelos and Washington:
"Peter Angelos has been unfairly chastised. He articulated a view that anybody who owned the Baltimore Orioles would articulate. But he won't (block a move to D.C.), nor has he ever threatened to. The rest is up to the relocation committee and ultimately to me."
Okay, folks, if the ultimate decision isn't to your liking, you now know where to throw the tomatoes...
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