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Bud Selig Would Like Other Sports To Stop Being So Interesting

Apr 6, 2010, 6:30 PM UTC

Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig was in attendance at Nationals Park yesterday to take in the Opening Day game between the Nationals and Phillies. With President Obama tossing out the ceremonial first pitch, who wouldn’t be caught up in all the hoopla surrounding a game between NL East teams likely to be separated by 20 or so games in the standings come September?â†µ

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â†µâ†µDespite the pageantry, it wasn’t enough to get the eyes of every sports fan trained on the baseball game. Why, some in the local media even had the gall to discuss a blockbuster trade that sent a star quarterback to the more popular area NFL team.â†µ

â†µâ†µObviously, this did not compute for the commish.â†µ

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â†µâ†µâ‡¥“I don’t know; it’s baseball. Goodness gracious, I’m a football fan -- this is Opening Day. If you really want to know I’m going to give you a brutally honest answer. I got up at 5:30 this morning and did my daily workout. And I was watching an unnamed channel and that’s all they were talking about. I turned it off, that was my reaction. My goodness gracious.”â†µâ†µâ†µGracious! And can someone tell that Tiger Woods fella not to hold press conferences while games are going on. The nerve of these people!â†µ

â†µâ†µFrankly, Selig can go pound salt. The NFL already does enough to give baseball a fighting chance by needlessly canceling its Sunday night game the week of the World Series. If baseball can’t take the focus off offseason player transactions, it’s a problem with the game, not the media.â†µ

â†µâ†µ(H/T to Second String Fullback)â†µ

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