Talk:Bud Selig

message: Could someone who knows include a mention here of why Selig was only acting commish?  —  Adam Conover † 04:45, Jun 9, 2004 (UTC)
I see a two year old question from Adam Conover... Selig was initially an "acting" commish as a half-step by the owners to basically neutering the position. The original expectation was that Fay Vicent's deputy would be appointed the new commish. The owners took the opportunity to make their lives easier by just replacing the commish with an owner. Over the next few years they fielded plenty of criticism but with no government action they felt safe to finally make Selig the official commissioner. Most would argue that he is less a commissioner and more a chief administrator executing the wishes of the owners. Anon Y. Mouse 22:29, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Selig was acting commissioner

message: The Wiki article is *wrong* when it says that Selig said that he will not overturn Joyce's call on the potential perfect game.  Selig said that he will look at instant replay for the future, but didn't SPECIFICALLY address the call.  That does *not* mean that he won't overturn it in the future.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.23.118.127 (talk) 02:39, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  JIM JOYCE CONTROVERSY 

message: Could someone who knows include a mention of how Selig became the Braves' biggest public stockholder. That seems like quite a feat for somebody in the "automobile business." ~~takethemud, 2am, 10/16/05
* I'm particularly interested in an answer to this question because he seems to have attained that position while still under 30 years old.  How is that possible? Heian-794 16:36, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Braves' biggest stockholder

message: Edited the Kenny Rogers incident under the "Commissioner" section.  Rogers did NOT accidentally bump the one cameraman--he did grab his video camera as an act of disruption.  --A.T. Horsfield 01:29, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Kenny Rogers incident

message: I'm wondering if someone should include a mention of the loose salary cap implimented during this period. IMHO, that's Selig's major accomplishment--it basically resurected teams like the Twins and Brewers by giving them enough money to lock up their starting pitching and young stars. ~~
The Twins under Carl Pohlad have tightly controlled spending regardless of revenue sharing and benefited from a relatively weak AL Central (something that has turned around in 2005 and this year), and the Brewers were below .500 from 1993 to 2004 (they were at .500 in 2005, and are currently below .500 in 2006). So I would not consider these two teams as a positive result of the revenue sharing plan put in place durig Selig's tenure.
-- Isaac Lin 04:43, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Salary Cap

message: The introductory paragraph to this section is argumentative. It seems inappropriate to pass judgment on Selig's support without providing citations.
The drug testing policy doesn't really fall under the category of innovative in my mind. It isn't a particularly novel or unusual policy.
-- Isaac Lin 04:43, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Innovative Ideas

message: Is there a cite for this? Looking into it, I see that, in 1992, Bush thought Selig backed him for the job (he doesn't seem to have been correct about that), but can't find anything to indicate that Selig, today, thinks Bush should succeed him. Bokonon42
:There was a joke about this on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night.  I can't find any proof on any report execpt for the blogs, but I wonder if he used the unreferenced part as a joke?  Is Jay Leno so desperate for laughs that he's using Wikipedia to find jokes?  Maybe or maybe not.  I'll go ahead and remove whoever put the part in the article in the first place.Spongefan 13:22, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I swear some people give way too much self-importance to Wikipedia.    WatchingYouLikeAHawk 15:15, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You can WP:Bold and help if you like.User:calbear22 (talk) 09:25, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bush as Successor

message: Is there any info out there about him between being a fan and an owner?!  This is almost unbelievable to read.  College...inheritance..amazing skill...car leasing....something?  The reference seems basically skipped over?  How does the man just jump to power?--Acussen 09:19, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The following book has more information on Selig, as well as historical perspective on all of the previous commissioners:  Isaac Lin 03:26, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Selig's History

message: Selig in recent days has been criticized for not being enthusiastic in the owner's box during the tying HR by Bonds as well as attempting to insinuate in his press releases that Bonds has used steroids, even though he's never been charged with a crime.  Many sports commentators have found this behavior perplexing and some have accused Selig of racism.  I'll see how we can summarize the Selig criticisms into an encyclopedic format.  WatchingYouLikeAHawk 15:19, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bonds HR chase criticism

message: How did Selig earn the money to become a minority owner of the Milwaukee Braves? Kingturtle (talk) 21:46, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  $$? 

message: I understand this is of deep interest to Cubs/Astros fans and I have mixed feelings about the inclusion of this event. It seems to me that it is basically an operations decision between the Astros and Cubs that MLB had to mediate in order to get the two sides to agree. As it is not a policy question, I don't think it quite meets the standard for notability in this article. If any non-Cubs/Astros fans that believe this information should appear in this article can provide a rationale, I would appreciate it. Isaac Lin (talk) 13:43, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving Cubs/Astros series in 2008 due to hurricane 

message: Are we sure the headshot someone uploaded of Mr Selig is  in the public domain? The website where it came from clearly has a copyright notice at the bottom, all rights reserved...209.47.31.6 (talk) 04:22, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
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thread_title: Dead Link

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message: Very clearly biased in favor of Selig rather than objectively describing both successes and failures, praise and criticisms.  I will be adding the non-neutrality banner to the top shortly.Jeeb (talk) 17:10, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Opening paragraph heavily non-neutral

message: That paragraph is very editorialized against the wild card. There is no mention of the extra revenue it generates nor the fact that two division winners could have a worse record then the wild card team. I nominate this paragraph be downsized to just mention the institution of the Wild Card and that's it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.74.239.169 (talk) 14:05, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: The Wild Card paragraph non-neutral

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message: I tried to add the “Baseball Hall of Fame” like to the info box but for some reason it won’t work? Can anyone help? --Coingeek (talk) 05:40, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: What exactly are you trying to add, and how? - BilCat (talk) 05:55, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, all of the articles on Baseball hall of famers have a “member of the National baseball hall of fame” thing at the bottom with their vote percentages and year inducted. That’s what I wanted to do but I haven’t been able to figure it out. --Coingeek (talk) 06:02, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, you meant your edits last year. I thought it was something you were trying to do today. What you added won't work because the parameters aren't a part of :Template:Infobox officeholder. Kenesaw Mountain Landis.is a commissioner in the Hall of Fame also, and doesn't have HOF info either. You should probably ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Baseball, and see if the regulars there have a solution or workaround. - BilCat (talk) 06:11, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

text: As a test, I tried adding :Template:Infobox baseball biography with only the HOF parameters, and it worked, though there is a visible gap between the two infoboxes. We'll see how long it takes some busybody to remove it. :) - BilCat (talk) 06:52, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

text: You're welcome. You should still probably ask at WT:Baseball to see if there's a more permanent solution. - BilCat (talk) 00:10, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hall of Fame info box? 

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