Steve B. says:

Taken straight up, I basically agree with your assessment (I went 5-5-5). The problem with your scoring system for grading Bud “The Salesman” Selig is that you grade all of these “achievements” equally.

Is the addition of two franchises, both of which have reached the World Series, which is a “win,” the same as the horrible, horrible, horrible decision to give home field advantage to the All-Star Game winning side? I say no. That is one of the worst decisions ever. Ever. It far outstrips the “win” that is the Rays/Diamondbacks. Based on that decision, I would have impeached him. And then drawn-and-quartered him. And then burned the remains. Okay, that maybe a little much.

So if a 5-5-5 or 5-4-6 is basically average and therefore a “B” grade, using a curve (ha, see what I did there?) to adjust for the momentously bad decisions, Selig earned a “C-” at best.

And those cookies look awesome!

MP says:

Yeah, ask me about Selig after that 10-minute replay farce in San Francisco yesterday?? I was stunned… for over an hour. I don’t even recognize the game anymore. If it were up to me, I’d reset the MLB clock back to 1992.
I wholeheartedly agree with the 1st two, but not a fan of the Diamondbacks – they bought that World Series in 2001, after only being in the league for 4 years – and the team went into deep debt thereafter. They did a quick fix. Lame.
Bud Selig gets an F- in my book. The only reason why they even put that (weak) PED testing in place is because of pressure from the public, congress & the union finally caving in when they were completely against it until then.
I miss the Brewers being in the AL because I used to drive to Milwaukee to see Sox games there. Selig only did it to cash in on Cubs fans filling up MIL.
The balanced schedule is the most fair – everybody plays everybody in the league (12-13 times), leaves room for rainout makeup dates & nobody gets punished/rewarded for playing in a tough/weak division. The unbalanced schedule is boring – 19 games each against division foes?? That’s 3 home/road series while 1 home/road series vs all other league foes. These 3 or 4-game interleague series make scheduling even tighter if there’s a rainout & adds many miles of travel.
Selig has been great to the owners but not to fans; especially long-time fans. Selig only cares about making money every single way possible while at the expense of the game. All these rule changes tilted in favor of the hitters (because fans/chicks dig the long ball), the record book is a joke now, Selig tricked cities into spending hundred’s of millions on new ballparks because “new stadiums brings winning” which is a total crock. Now we have all these generic ballparks that look the same while a ton of history was lost so owners could charge $2,500 for box seats (new Yankee Stadium) & price the average fan out of the ballpark.
While personally I didn’t care for the Montreal Expos, that’s all on MLB for killing that franchise with the 1994 Strike.
The WBC – WTF is the point of this?? It’s a money maker. That’s all it is. I cringe seeing players on my team in it; especially pitchers.
Instant replay is unnecessary. If you can’t tell if that’s a home run, that’s totally pathetic. The umpires are lousy, corrupt (a-hole Joe West), need to be held accountable & retrained and at the very least: put another 2 in the outfield like in the playoffs. People need to realize that baseball is NOT a video game. Mistakes happen but they eventually even out. There’s 2,430 games & 21,870+ innings a season. I blame the internet sports media for dwelling on things to appease whiners who don’t really understand the game & probably never even played it. MLB survived for 138 seasons without replay. 1985 World Series & Don Denkinger? That’s the umpire’s fault for not reversing that call.
MLB will never admit interleague play is a mistake & is ruining their ASG & World Series ratings. All they say is “look at the attendance figures! We made more money!” MLB ruined what made their sport unique from all others.
The Wild Cards were designed to do two things: keep fans buying tickets in September (didn’t work in Tampa! Or Atlanta, or Cleveland..or…) and to appease the networks so big market teams are likely in postseason for better ratings & revenue.
The lack of real revenue sharing & a salary cap is sad & the luxury tax is a joke. My interest in MLB is dwindling every season & purists keep getting spat in the face like they don’t matter at all.

Kahnye says:

I could have sworn he cancelled a World Series in there because he and his owner er “buddies” wanted to keep colluding against the players. A World Series, mind you, that could have featured a Pedro- and Big Unit-led Expos team to be Champions Mondiale (or whatever). Matt Williams could have broken Maris’s record given a full season. Yes the players struck, but Alan LITERALLY took the ball and went home.

Also, I totally agree with the first comment that giving every decision he made the same weight kind of makes the whole experiment irrelevant.

And don’t forget that he personally decided that the All-Star Game would be a tie. A tie! This is baseball. Not a regular season game with Donovan McNabb “leading” an offense. There’s no tying in baseball!

Devin says:

I just tried the s’mores version of those cookies the other day, and they were delicious. Probably the best of these easy bake type cookies I’ve ever had. My only problem is that they’re pretty expensive ($3.18 at my local Walmart) for only getting nine cookies, which seems like a bit much no matter how fancy they are.