Bud Selig will formally announce his retirement...

It is about time.  Why are the Brewers in the NL and the Astros in the AL again?

For a retirement gift, I will mail him a comb.  And the address of the nearest Jos. A. Bank store, where he can buy suits that fit.

I'm not a big fan of Mr Selig, and it is time for him to turn this over to someone more progressive.   Baseball has been left in the dust in the public consciousness to other major and minor sports.  There will always be die hard fans like us, but there are many old and new fans & families that need to be won over again.   He was just too slow to act, and too blind to see what was going on under his watch.  It is time, and there will be much rejoicing!

Selig's biography can be titled Life In The Owners Back Pocket.

I have been a vocal critic of some of Selig's actions recently. I disagree with a lot of the rulings that come out and the ways by which the league takes part in it's policy making.

However, I don't think it's that difficult to comprehend the success and progression that the game has made during his reign as commissioner. Is all of the success his responsibility? No, certainly not. But he's had a hand in quite a bit of it.

While it may very well be time for a new set of eyes and ears (I do like the term "progressive), I find it difficult to criticize his accomplishments as a whole. As a business entity, both domestically and internationally, the game of baseball is in a completely different stratosphere than where it was prior to Selig assuming the position of commissioner...and, for the most part, in a very good way.

Bye-Bye !

What's funny is, Selig is credited with implementing the drug enforcement policy. Guess he forgot about A-Rod. 

Sign posted over a urinal at the Red Sox Spring Training facility in Ft. Myers, Florida:

                             "Bud Selig Memorial Fountain"

Somebody is not a fan....

What a terrible, terrible thing to do!   Just a passing coincidence the park is named Fenway South.   It wasn't me.   I was in the Ft Myers hotel room last March with my wife watching Breaking Bad.

Boy if you saw the MLB draft this year, it's not soon enough. The owners have gotten all the mileage off ole Bud they can. The good Lord is kind in many ways but not to the aged in most cases. When you get to the point that you don't know what year it is, was, or will be, it's time to go. 

I won't miss him.  I remember when I was a 10-year old boy and he was the man who stole away my Seattle Pilots.  Good riddance.