LOL Brewers to build statue of Selig

[Post Count Padder]

The statue should be this pose:

 

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/deadspin/2009/11/mlb_g_bud1_600.jpg

[Maclowery]

Perhaps this ?

http://jonathanshaffer.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/bud-selig-microphone-4251.jpg

[Ball And Glove]

Wasn't the bringing of the Pilots to Milwaukee a really crooked Loria-like deal?

 

As brewersbrewers tried to explain, there wasn't much shady about it. League approval went down to the wire (there's that old story about the equipment trucks sitting in Denver after Spring Training, waiting to learn if they were driving to Seattle or Milwaukee), but it wasn't shady.

 

A lot of people forget that Selig almost bought the Chicago White Sox with the intention of moving them to Milwaukee before that. The rest of the American League owners refused to approve the sale, though, because they didn't want Chicago to become an NL-only town.

 

As for the statue, he deserves credit for bringing baseball back to a city that was heartbroken when the Braves left, running a great organization in the 80's, and brokering the Miller Park deal before handing over control of the franchise to his daughter. I'm sure you'll find many Brewer fans who would say letting Wendy Selig run the team into the ground is reason enough to not have a statue, but I prefer to look past that. ;)

[UMFan83]

I wish he would have been able to buy the White Sox

[Bull]

I have never heard of it being crooked in bring the Brewers to Milwaukee, the Pilots were in bankrupsey court in Seattle and Mr. Selig and his group paid $10.5 million dollors for the team.

 

bankrupsey

 

dollors

 

in bring

 

Mr. Selig

[Exile on Waveland]

Philadelphia has Rocky, Dogpatch has Jubilation T. Cornpone and Milwaukee has Bud. All's good with the world.

 

Huh.