Without devolving into why everyone hates the Yankees or why they’re supposedly so bad for baseball, I found it very interesting that Bud Selig earned roughly $17.5M in salary in 2007.
The commissioner and his Yankee-hating cohorts rail against the excesses of the New York Yankees yet he sees fit to accept compensation that would’ve made him the fourth-highest paid player in baseball? For what? What does Bud Selig do that justifies such a lavish salary? How can Selig tell people with a straight face that the Yankees are destroying baseball with their supposedly wanton spending yet he was earning more than all but three ballplayers? That is flat-out insanity.
Here’s the kicker, though. Since a commissioner cannot just pick his own salary, it means that baseball’s owners have to collectively approve what they’re willing to pay the man they’ve designated as the “brains” behind the operation. So the next time you hear an owner like Mark Attanasio of the Brewers talking salary cap, remind him that fiscal restraint on the part of management costs would go a long way to improving his own bottom line. Incidentally, baseball laid off 4% of its workforce shortly before the holidays. You think maybe some of that extra cheddar Selig’s earning might’ve helped defray costs at MLB HQ?
Bud Selig makes me sick.
The commissioner and his Yankee-hating cohorts rail against the excesses of the New York Yankees yet he sees fit to accept compensation that would’ve made him the fourth-highest paid player in baseball? For what? What does Bud Selig do that justifies such a lavish salary? How can Selig tell people with a straight face that the Yankees are destroying baseball with their supposedly wanton spending yet he was earning more than all but three ballplayers? That is flat-out insanity.
Here’s the kicker, though. Since a commissioner cannot just pick his own salary, it means that baseball’s owners have to collectively approve what they’re willing to pay the man they’ve designated as the “brains” behind the operation. So the next time you hear an owner like Mark Attanasio of the Brewers talking salary cap, remind him that fiscal restraint on the part of management costs would go a long way to improving his own bottom line. Incidentally, baseball laid off 4% of its workforce shortly before the holidays. You think maybe some of that extra cheddar Selig’s earning might’ve helped defray costs at MLB HQ?
Bud Selig makes me sick.
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