Bud Selig’s contract as commissioner of baseball will be extended three years, to 2009, pending a vote by baseball’s owners. This would make about as much sense as NBC extending Jay Leno until 2009- which also, by the way, has happened. And picking the tenth anniversary of the start of the baseball strike over which Bud presided to announce the extension is another nice touch.
Doug Pappas, the Baseball Prospectus writer who passed away earlier this year, used to run a “Countdown To the End of Selig’s Term” clock at the top of his Business of Baseball blog; Doug’s gotta be rolling in his grave right about now.
Posted by Stephen Silver at August 9, 2004 09:46 PM