Idiot Commssioner Bud Selig Will Not Resign in 2009: Given Three Year Extension

Bud Selig was given a three-year extension as baseball commissioner through the 2012 season.

The unanimous decision made at Thursday's owners' meeting came two days after Selig and union head Donald Fehr testified before a congressional committee that both criticized baseball for its steroids problem and praised the sport for strides made during the past three years.

Selig will become baseball's second-longest-serving leader behind Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who was the first commissioner from 1920-44. Selig had said repeatedly since December 2006 that he intended to retire after the 2009 season, but many in baseball didn't believe him.

"I did wrestle with it. I spent a lot of time agonizing over it, mainly with myself," Selig said. "But they really convinced me."

He became acting commissioner in September 1992, when clubs forced out Fay Vincent. After saying he wouldn't take the job, Selig was elected to a five-year term as permanent commissioner in 1998 and gave up running the Milwaukee Brewers, the team he bought in 1970 and his family sold in 2005.

Owners voted in November 2001 to extend his term through 2006, then voted in August 2004 to extend it through 2009. He will be 78 by the end of the latest extension.

"This was coming completely from the clubs," Red Sox chairman Tom Werner said.

Selig received $14.5 million in the 12-month period ending Oct. 31, 2005, according to Major League Baseball's last available tax return.

Baseball's labor contract runs through the 2011 season and its national television deals with FOX, Turner Broadcasting and ESPN run through 2013. Revenue, which was $1.66 billion when Selig became acting commissioner, topped $6 billion last year. He projects them to top $6.5 billion this year.

I Cannot Believe the greedy owners gave this idiot commisioner three more years simply because he kisses the behinds of the owners and the players union! Both the owners and Players Union have too much power! Although some of the things Selig instituted have been great, including interleague play, Homefield Advantage At The World Series, and the World Baseball Classic, the thing that will forever tarnish Selig's legacy is the fact that he buried his head in the sand while the Steroids were running rampant in Major League Clubhouses! Selig is trying to correct the problem now, but it is too little, too late!

Baseball needs a new commsioner As Soon As Possible, because, under the watch of current commissioner Bud Selig, the worst commisioner in Sports, this great game of Baseball is heading to hell in a handbasket.