Edward at bambinoscurse.com has some really good insight on Bud Selig's online press conference. (Here's the transcript.) Bud dodges a lot of the questions and goes to the official Party Line too often.
One thing of interest was the idea that baseball relign along revenue lines; that way, one team from the bottom half of the economic pyramid will always be in the World Series. It won't work because it doesn't differentiate between the teams that really don't have the money, like K.C., and the teams that could have the money but are cheap or poorly-run, like Baltimore. Bud's answer is way off the mark; he talks about ruining traditional rivalries, conveniently forgetting that his interleague play has brought the world "rivalries" like the Marlins/Blue Jays, Padres/Mariners, and Expos/Devil Rays.
Not to mention that the Padres finally play the Orioles this year...one year too late for Gwynn and Ripken to be involved.
Posted by michaelf at March 27, 2002 01:56 PM