Selig didn't like that McNabb trade stole MLB's thunder
by JasonB on Apr 7, 2010 6:00 AM EDT
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PrintI love baseball. I've played the sport my whole life, I frankly enjoying going to a baseball game more than a football game, but let's be honest... In this country and in this town the NFL is f-ing king and even though Sunday & Monday was baseball's opening day the Donovan McNabb trade story dominated the local and national headlines. The story so totally blew baseball's coverage out of the water, that MLB commissioner Bud Selig took notice... and he wasn't happy.
Bud was in the press box of the Phillies vs Nationals game, which featured the defending NL champs full of big stars, one of the best pitchers in the game on the mound, and the President of United States throwing out the first pitch! However, even all that wasn't enough to bump wall to wall McNabb coverage off "the world leader."
Selig just met with a group of about three dozen reporters in the pressbox here at Nationals Park, and he smirked when asked what he’s heard at the ballpark this afternoon about the McNabb deal.
"I was watching an unnamed channel and [McNabb] was all they were talking about," Selig said. "I turned it off."
MJD at Shut Down corner put Bud in his place...
those are the breaks, Mr. Selig. Sometimes things happen, and it takes some shine away from Red Sox/Yankees. Sometimes, other things happen, and it doesn't matter, because ESPN's already decided that Red Sox/Yankees is going to be crammed down your gullet whether you like it or not.
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Selig won’t find any sympathy from me, and he shouldn’t find any sympathy from any Philadelphia sports fan. His handling of the rain game in the World Series was beyond abysmal.
by JimmyK on Apr 7, 2010 6:25 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Yeah, but only because we won. Had we lost, that 3 inning game wouldn't be remembered so fondly.
It’s just the way that whole situation went down. The second the Rays scored, they stopped the game, which was ridiculously unjust. It was like… OK, they scored. Sweet! NOW we can stop the game and the rules of a rainout after the 5th inning won’t apply. Personally, I wouldn’t have had a problem with them suspending that game with the Phillies ahead, not awarding the Phillies the game, and continuing it the next day. My beef was that the Phillies were in the field during that storm, which put them at a major disadvantage in that inning.
i love baseball
but i cant stand selig. too bad common sense and logic arent something you can buy at walmart
Selig was a Car Dealer
before he owned the Brewers. The Brewers played in what was generally considered one of the more underrated older stadiums in the league but Selig wanted something new so he built Miller Field which everyone likes less than County Stadium. A full listing of Selig’s mistakes would take all day, but baseball still survives. Of course, personally I’m going to stick with the minor leagues – a new AA team is starting here in Richmond – highest ticket price is $10. Compared to $20 a piece for the upper deck my wife and I went to a game at Camden Yards last summer or $30 for the upper deck when I saw the Phillies play the Cardinals at Busch Stadium.
marketing
MLB (and Selig specifically) are the only company that I know of in the world that tries to market and promote its product by talking about how flawed and non-competitive it is.
http://www.thegoodphight.com
BFD Selig
I love my Phillies but football trumps baseball
"I don't have to worry about the Washington Redskins, I have to worry about the Philadelphia Eagles."- Andy Reid
Yeah really..
We have 1/10th of that.
The Eagles WILL redeem themselves in the '10-'11 season, with a win at SuperBowl 45 in Dallas!
lol did you mean...
“S you in your A’s, don’t wear a C, and J all over your B’s”
-Charlie day
"If I can get you to think twice, I'm in your head."
-Brian Dawkins
I love the Eagles but
Come on Philly is a baseball town every comer you turn it’s all about the Phillies.
Let’s Go Phillies!!!!!!!!!
by howard is better than pujols on Apr 7, 2010 10:00 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
But yeah Selig is annoying as fuck cant stand that moron
by howard is better than pujols on Apr 7, 2010 10:02 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Lol
I take that as an insult, thank u very much
by howard is better than pujols on Apr 7, 2010 10:52 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
except he could make a legit arguements for it, since howard is one a professional team, let alone a starter, allstar, & world series champion
The Kolb Era has begun....
Kolb - a heavy medieval war club with a spiked or flanged metal head, used to crush armor - Wikipedia of course
I've been waiting my whole life for an Eagles Championship
RIP JJ
by sports00fan00 on Apr 7, 2010 11:26 AM EDT up reply actions
So is Pujols. In fact, who are we talking about to get the Triple Crown this year, Howard or
Pujols?
Howard’s my favorite Phillie, but there’s no argument.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
by alcatraz0109 on Apr 7, 2010 12:39 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
One thing I can say
is that if you asked Cardinals fans if they’d give up Pujols for Howard you might be surprised at the response – and its not just because Howard is from St Louis and has always killed the Cardinals.
Is it about money perchance?
If St. Louis can give Holliday a deal they should be able to give Pujols one – I consider them a major market. In fact, I would be surprised if Pujols wasn’t a Cardinal his whole career.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
No its that
people in St Louis know how good Howard is.
And St Louis itself isn’t that large of a primary market (its about the same size a Minneapolis-St Paul), but when you consider that their closest major league competition is the Kansas City Royals and that Kansas City is 250 miles away (Chicago is 300 miles from St Louis) and the distances are even farther if you look south where the closest teams are the Braves and Rangers (actually it may actually be Astros and Rangers because I think that Houston may be closer to St Louis than Atlanta) they have a very large secondary market including the home of their Triple A team in Memphis.
Baseball.
Zzzzzz
No sympathy. I had to endure days of a-rod, clemens, and many others, stealing headlines.
Get over it. Get a better product if you don’t like losing your news cycle.
I actually thought the timing was well for this., for the nfl
by corn on the kolb on Apr 7, 2010 10:02 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Yeah.
I haven’t followed baseball since like ‘03 (I was a New York Mets fan).
On another thread, EvilBanner and some others were talking about bringing back a public hanging. I think that I would be eligible for hanging after that information.. Haha.. But yes.
The NFL is much more interesting to me than baseball. Like playing it, can’t stand watching it. 162 games x 3 hours a game (give or take): 486 hours of baseball a year, per team. That’s almost five hundred hours. Seems like a waste to me. Haha. Although, I do spend around three hours a day on BGN.. Reading/Posting.. BUT: That’s not a waste :)
The Eagles WILL redeem themselves in the '10-'11 season, with a win at SuperBowl 45 in Dallas!
Could have been worse...
Could have been Brett Favre
The Kolb Era has begun....
Kolb - a heavy medieval war club with a spiked or flanged metal head, used to crush armor - Wikipedia of course
I've been waiting my whole life for an Eagles Championship
RIP JJ
Seen as the baseball season is about 82 games too long Selig you can go screw yourself, your league is nothing but a group of steroid using out of shape overpaid fat asses. Heres the sign, he looks at first, shakes off the signal, heres the pitch, low and away for ball one. This should not be such a long process it sucks the energy out of the game and sport! You can take a nap between half the pitches.
Yo Selig, Bud
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