DLD 2/8/10: Statue of Bud Selig to be erected in Milwaukee
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! That's a great joke, right? Well, sadly it's no joke: the Milwaukee Brewers are building a statue of Bud Selig outside Miller Park. I personally hate the guy and think this is a ridiculous notion. To me, he has always put his wallet and the wallets of the owners ahead of the game itself. This is his legacy. And the Brewers choose to honor Selig in a freakin' statue outside of their ballpark. Truly incredible.
Anyway, that is the only link I have for you today. I just wanted to be sure that everyone on AN knew of this atrocity, and to be sure that everyone check the comments in the link above, some of them are hilarious, e.g. "Next they should erect a statue of a giant steroid filled syringe behind him, so he can turn his back on that too."
Dump away!
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Sadly...
as the owners select the commish, that whole “looking out for the owners over all other interests” thing is pretty much the norm.
exactly - I'd say they probably think he's doing a very good job
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
The ninth fastest thirty year old in San Francisco
next time I'm in Milwaukee
I’ll get a picture of myself picking the statue’s nose…
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And i'll put a stache on the picture.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
Diaper it!
I think the diapering of statues should be more widespread than just Grants Pass, Oregon.
I'm for it
It will give the pigeons a place to shit.
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."
-Charles Manson
by kaweahkaweah on Feb 8, 2010 1:02 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
I'd put up a statue of centaur A-rod
before this
100% Athletics, 100% Baseball. 2009 Athletics, 40% Baseball.
My Twitter hero Old Hoss Radbourn says
OldHossRadbourn Little known fact: the new statue of “Bud” Selig will be made with seven arms, all of which will be fumbling for excuses.
I wonder if it will be anything like this...

That rug really tied the room together...
by Streams Of Whiskey on Feb 8, 2010 1:21 PM PST reply actions
Wow
That’s really bizarre. I wonder how they will have him posed.
Time has graded the Super Bowl Commercials. Personally, I rather liked the Coke/Simpsons ad and the Letterman spot.
don't grow up too fast / and don't embrace the past / this life's too good to last
Filler comment:
My 3rd Annual Super Bowl poker tournament went well. We had 25 players and a bunch of other stragglers. I did not win or place, but I had 10-6 offsuit seven times in one hour. That’s pretty amazing, right?
While we waited for the tourney to end, the early knockouts watched the game and played liars’ dice. I won the first three games, then in the fourth, I was heads-up with all five dice left against a guy with two left, and I lost five straight passes for the defeat.
Then, the guy who won the tourney got too drunk and lost most of it back in the cash game, which is nice.
I broke even on poker in the end, and got late night super nachos on the way home from El Forastero (one of the Adalberto’s/Carolina’s/El Mexicano style taquerias in a converted ex-Taco Bell)
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 8, 2010 1:41 PM PST up reply actions
you're a degenerate gambler.
I love you.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 2:34 PM PST up reply actions
Oh, I love you too, guy...
at least the parts of me that are capable of feeling love.
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 8, 2010 3:13 PM PST up reply actions
but what about the parts that can only feel lust?
If Pennington manages 17 HRs, I’ll vow to consume an article of clothing to achieve a humorous effect --Joey C.
everybody wants me.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 4:56 PM PST up reply actions
I'm pretty much right with you.
I like Letterman and the Coke ad.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 2:33 PM PST up reply actions
I was so disappointed with the Coke ad
I drunkenly watched the Simpsons circa season 6 with my friends last night and remembered how great television really could be. The show has changed so much that it’s not even recognizable.
And that ad? That shit would have at least been funny back in ’95.
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
It was kind of funny.
subtly.
Smithers was sold off. They were selling all his belongings 2 for .99. He had an Andy Warhol of himself and Millhouse said “Sorry, Coke.” when he bumped into it with his kite-prison. It’s a Coke commercial—how funny’s it gonna be?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 4:56 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah
Coke seems to go more for amusing/heartwarming than funny. Like these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieSzsh4hJWI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiMf5cCDy1I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVMvWXUkAiM
don't grow up too fast / and don't embrace the past / this life's too good to last
I like how it looked
like Leno had been in a fight (his hair was all kinds of crazy). The Snicker’s one made me lol, especially after certain comments here on AN. So timely. The Docker’s commercial seemed very appropo as well. It was almost like they had been reading the blog.
wait a minute.
what was the dockers one?
I liked the Snickers, too.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 6:10 PM PST up reply actions
oh. that.
pants are overrated. Screw Dockers. They’ve got an agenda.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 6:30 PM PST up reply actions
yeah!
Wait, what are bra’s agenda?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 6:35 PM PST up reply actions
hmmm, your words are sage.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 6:43 PM PST up reply actions
you're not wearing pants?
and you’re wearing your hair in a beehive?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 6:54 PM PST up reply actions
check...
…and check.
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 9, 2010 11:18 AM PST up reply actions
I turned on the TV right during the Simpsons Coke ad
and I was confused at first. I thought, “Huh? I thought the Super Bowl was on,” but then I realized it was the Coke ad.
Right after that was a Monster.com commercial where some sort of rodent was a fiddler but he typed “violinist” in at the website. That irritated me, because fiddling is a very fine art and any fiddler worth his shit would call himself a fiddler, not a violinist. To call a fiddler a violinist is an insult to both fiddlers AND violinists.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
it was a beaver.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 8:35 PM PST up reply actions
I've kinda been going the other way on that one lately.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 9:27 PM PST up reply actions
My favorite was the Dorito's commerical with the little boy
A man comes over to his house to meet the boy’s Mom for a date. The guy is checking out the Mom and talking to the kid when the kid slaps him across the face. “Don’t touch my Momma, and don’t touch my Doritos”.
It was much better than the other Doritos commercial of the guy “buried alive” in a casket full of chips, it was lame.
How many freaking Doritos and Bud Light commericals were there anyways? 3 each?
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
I hope you know that Selig's ties to Milwaukee go back a very long way
Last of the Ninth - Photography
Yup... he's got big ties in Milwaukee

"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige
The man is a cancer.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 6:11 PM PST up reply actions
I hope that's the pose for his statue.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
He's flashing his gang sign for the 1888ers.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
He'd better not pull that shit in Oakland...
The Arthritic Riders will eat his ass for lunch!
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 9, 2010 8:38 AM PST up reply actions
He might enjoy that though.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
It's kind of tacky to do it while he's alive
As a commissioner, his record is debatable. But as an owner, he brought the franchise to Milwaukee, so maybe he deserves some recognition in that title.
The Brewers should wait till he croaks before enshrining him at the park.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. -Dave Barry
But there's a little problem with that...
Selig’s got Mr. Burns’ disease, and he’s NEVER EVER GONNA DIE!
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 8, 2010 3:14 PM PST up reply actions
True true...
I wish Bill King had Mr. Burns’ disease…
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 8, 2010 3:20 PM PST up reply actions
So, it's a slow news day... nothing going on...
I oddly enough crave a little game thread action… I used to not get involved with those at all, on general principles…
But now that getting the A’s on the radio is pretty much a joke, my old pattern of puttering around the yard with the game on the radio, and coming inside to watch the late innings on TV, is pretty much broken.
I plan on upping my gamethread contributions onehundredfold this season, from about ten comments last year, to about a thousand this year.
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good.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 4:57 PM PST up reply actions
just don't spook Don.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 4:58 PM PST up reply actions
don't scare him away, sirbed.
he’ll be a fun addition.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 8:37 PM PST up reply actions
I say a thousand
20 per game times about 50 games…
That sounds about right…
Can’t do every game, because of band practices, poker nights, and RiverCats games…
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 9, 2010 8:40 AM PST up reply actions
I didn't know you were a "she"
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 9, 2010 11:19 AM PST up reply actions
and that's another TWSS
I think you guys all assume that if someone doesn’t have girl or gal or honey in her username that the user is male. And you know what they say about assuming.
I risked and lost...
I don’t know you well enough to assume anything…
Just because you said “That’s what I said” wasn’t enough for me to assume you’re a woman, so I went with the odds, which are that a random AN poster is likely male, and dropped the genderbender joke.
I have to admit there are a few posters on this site whom I am curious about gender identity.
I’m pretty sure Leopold_Bloom is a bitter lesbian ex-trucker with a complicated false male online identity. Some of you folks say you’ve met the “real person,” but, hell, if I can send an impostor to AN Day, anyone can!
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 9, 2010 1:42 PM PST up reply actions
No one on here's met me.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 9, 2010 3:18 PM PST up reply actions
Hey... I thought you were on a bus...
(Did you know you can comment on Athletics Nation from a smelly Greyhound bus headed West on I-10? SB Nation has launched mobile commenting. Check it out next time you’re making an unsolicited trip out west to try to get laid by your internet buddy’s fiancee)
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 9, 2010 3:45 PM PST up reply actions
If I'm busing 3000 miles,
I’m fucking you both.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 9, 2010 7:42 PM PST up reply actions
hmmm.
good point.
maybe I should make a list.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 9, 2010 7:52 PM PST up reply actions
Don't come and you'll have fucked us all :(
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
How interesting! Why not?
I mean, no one on here’s met me either, but that’s only because I’m still new – and shy. What’s your excuse?
link fail.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 9, 2010 7:53 PM PST up reply actions
yeah, it was.
Inspired.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 9, 2010 8:39 PM PST up reply actions
I could make another.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 9, 2010 11:52 PM PST up reply actions
Would you?
That would be sweet! Can you make another AN one while you’re at it? We’ll be needing that for the Opening Day tailgate.
yuppers.
no problem, babe.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 10, 2010 8:31 PM PST up reply actions
I am.
The rest of you can quit trying now.
I have achieved perfection.
Soon they will come to nail me to my cross.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 10, 2010 8:34 PM PST up reply actions
I trade smokes for cotton swabs and meticulously weave it into a banner shape.
I then trade my cup o’ soups with the tattoo guys for ink.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 9, 2010 8:40 PM PST up reply actions
We use the tattoo needles.
And you don’t wanna know.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 9, 2010 11:52 PM PST up reply actions
On the internet
It is better to assume male and be wrong, than to assume otherwise and be disappointed.
I did a thousand last year and I am not that prolific a poster.....
I think you can shoot for more than that!! I know I always enjoy your perspective!
ty
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 9, 2010 11:56 PM PST up reply actions
And Rotoworld says:
Lou Merloni is out of baseball, and doing radio? How, the BoSox fans must be suffering – first, the Yankee’s win the WS, now this.
Actually, I thought he was still in Sacramento… but I guess that was years ago.
by As Fan in the Bronx on Feb 8, 2010 5:16 PM PST reply actions
Oops
Forgot the link.
http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.aspx?sport=MLB&id=2312
Granted, citing Rotoworld is a bit like citing the Reader’s Digest, so the original’s here:
http://fullcount.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/2010/02/04/garciaparra-not-ready-to-retire/
by As Fan in the Bronx on Feb 8, 2010 5:27 PM PST up reply actions
Wilford Brimley shoots heroin.
It’s true. Look it up.
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 8, 2010 6:44 PM PST up reply actions
toljaso.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 6:51 PM PST up reply actions
my favoritist
At the company’s peak, they employed over 15,000 until Brimley ate most of the workers during an Ambien-fueled sleep-eating binge. Thus, working at Liberty is labeled as “high-risk”, because Wilford Brimley could eat you at any time. Because of this, it was once profiled on The Al Queda Network’s World’s Most Dangerous Jobs.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 6:56 PM PST up reply actions
I don't think I can go to that site anymore.
It freaks me out too much. It looks exactly like Wikipedia. But on real Wikipedia I reflexively fix typos on misspellings, and the urge to do so is like a physical tic. But on fake-Wikipedia I’m not sure if it’s on purpose as part of the joke, so I feel like I should leave it alone, but at the same time I can’t stand to see it there either, so I’m paralyzed.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
but but...
they spell that way in Pennsyltucky!
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 9, 2010 8:43 AM PST up reply actions
I just want you to know Bloom
that I send all these slanders of my man Wilford to him and his mustache is looking for payback.
you just keep Mr. Hand away from me.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 8:40 PM PST up reply actions
Mmmmm......
Next time you want to mail a letter, check out these snazzy envelopes….
There's no crying in baseball!
Nice envelope, but there are some things that would freak me out if they tasted like bacon.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 6:30 PM PST up reply actions
Does anyone else think it might be slightly hedonistic of me
to long for the five minute breaks in online poker so I can masturbate?
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In honor of Valentine's Day...
two words.
Master Baker.
Not that I would know about that, or anything.
so you think I should long for the five minute break
in order to bake?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 7:14 PM PST up reply actions
I can't think of a cookie that would bake in five minutes.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 7:18 PM PST up reply actions
L?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 7:29 PM PST up reply actions
Some one sent vanilla chips to
some one, in the hope that some one would send some of his awesome cookies (that he bragged about) back. No go.
cookies don't travel well, but I'm MORE than willing to do that.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 8:41 PM PST up reply actions
I can do that.
There’s still a few bags left.
And by a few, I mean two.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 9:27 PM PST up reply actions
too late
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 9:42 PM PST up reply actions
no, it's too late because I'm sending them to your ass.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 11:49 PM PST up reply actions
If you're going for the Jackie O, then no
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 9, 2010 8:45 AM PST up reply actions
Is it really make from pee?
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
sometimes I'll buy myself flowers first,
run a bath.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 8:53 PM PST up reply actions
This is important...
and don’t use the shampoo next time… that’s where the blisters came from!
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 9, 2010 11:23 AM PST up reply actions
Now, little Leo,
Daddy and I want you to know that what you’re doing is OK. It’s normal and all boys do it. But it’s something that’s private, so that’s why it’s not appropriate to always be talking about it in public.
Do you understand?
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
So, he may be a hit with the owners,
but since he’s been in charge, average player salaries have tripled.
Wow
Never ceases to amaze me the hate for Selig on this forum. As soon as I heard the story I wondered what the reaction on here would be, pretty much how I thought it would. Being from the Milwaukee area, I’m biased but he is definately more loved than hated here, for bringing back MLB to Milwaukee and keeping it here. Sure he has more interest of the owners…duh. Most commish’s do.
His tenure as commish has some negatives but far more positives IMO. The changes made that he helped push and the growth the game has had is impressive. Seems people hate him for some silly reasons to go along with any legit ones.
I guess the bottom line is I can get not agreeing with him but the hatred….c’mon, did he kick your puppy or spit on your wife/baby?
Gas to Chicago- $23.87 A's/White Sox Tix- $28 Watching the A's whipping the Sox in July 05'- Priceless
Our sewer line blocked up this year, needed a $5K replacement job.
I immediately thought – Selig! you bastard! I don’t know yet how he managed to grow those root balls right in the middle of our sewer line, but when I find out…
he suggested contraction for my franchise while his own was similarly vexed.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 8, 2010 11:50 PM PST up reply actions
Waltz, nymph,
for quick jigs vex Bud!
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Me and my author wuv you right now.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 9, 2010 3:19 PM PST up reply actions
I think he's the best commissioner baseball has ever had.
I give him a D.
The rest of them were F’s or worse.
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 9, 2010 8:47 AM PST up reply actions
I forgot Giamatti... but he wasn't in office for long...
I give Giamatti a C-.
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 9, 2010 8:48 AM PST up reply actions
Since you're a Milwaukeean
I was wondering, could elaborate on Selig and Milwaukee?
One of my first reactions to this story was a question about Selig’s worthiness based solely on his tenure as owner. Obviously, one can’t ignore his time as commissioner, but if Selig is a local hero than he should be honored with a local statue. Seems like he’s well loved as an owner. If he deserves bronze immortality for his Brewers days, I don’t see anything bad enough in his record as commissioner that warrants denying Brewers fans the statue.
"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball." - Connie Mack
I'll do my best..
I wasn’t around when the franchise came to Milwaukee nor old enough to appreciate the good teams of the early 80’s that brought baseball back to being popular in this city, my #1 team was always the A’s since I started watching baseball in 88’-89’ and still is….but I am a Brewers fan #2 and have appreciated the way the team is run with the new ownership/front office. Before with Bud’s daughter running the team, it was an udderless ship with a horrible front office. Melvin is no Beane but hes done very well for the market size and salary constraints and the fact the Brewers drew 3 million + fans last year for a sub .500 team in this market is pretty astounding, IMO. Anyway…..
He led a group to buy the Seattle Pilot’s after they had gone bankrupt and bring them to Milwaukee. Selig made his money as a car dealership owner around here and had his name on some dealers throughout the 80’s and into the 90’s IIRC. I even had a winter beater with a Selig tag on the trunklid at one point (86’ Monte SS) in my college days. The Brewers old stadium was a pile and he “fought” to bring a new stadium which opened in 2001. Would the Brewers of left? Maybe, maybe not…but a new stadium was needed for them to keep up. So, in the eyes of baseball fans he is a local who brought a MLB team to “his” city and helped keep it here, he never really threatened to move it while working for the new stadium. His intentions are good and pure, if you will, from the Brewers point of view. I understand some A’s fan dislike of his contraction comments….silly, perhaps just a threat IMO. I’d be f-ing pissed if that ever happened to the A’s too, but I don’t think it was ever a real possibility. He is a real baseball fan too, not just someone who owned it as an investment, so that gets him bonus points in the eyes of many. He hasn’t owned the team or had any ties to it for quite some time now, surely he is a Brewers fan first and an office is located in Milwaukee for him yet as the commish (IIRC). He was an owner and his intentions are with the small markets, something overlooked at times. I don’t agree with everything he has done as a commisioner but think years from now his tenure will be looked at very highly to be honest with what was accomplished under it.
The statue is for his time with the Brewers, not as a commissioner….so any dislike over his decisions or time as commish is something seperate anyway.
Basically if he did what he has done for the Brewers and MLB in Milwaukee for the A’s and Oakland, fans would like him alot too, or any other city.
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An udderless ship??!!
I am a collector of malapropisms, but that’s a first for me.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Must've been
a bull ship.
don't grow up too fast / and don't embrace the past / this life's too good to last
Your welcome
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*rudderless*
Oops…and oops for not putting this with your welcome. I’ll stop now.
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I was a little baked
and read the title of this as “Bud Selig to Be Executed in Milwaukee” and I was kinda disappointed my hallucination wasn’t real, is that bad?
Hey, I just bought the team from Lew Wolff... who wants to play third?
yes, but it makes me like you more.
Downside is you’re going to hell if you believe in it.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 9, 2010 3:19 PM PST up reply actions
You also go to hell if it believes in you.
"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball." - Connie Mack
In former Soviet Union blah blah blah.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 9, 2010 7:43 PM PST up reply actions
A super bowl commercial that I hadn't seen yet
and oh yeah, Megan Fox has a giant thumb with a short fat nail on it.
that commercial had me ROTFL!
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Actually, this makes me like her more.
It’s sexy to have physical peculiarities that are weird but not actually unattractive.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
like Cindy Crawford's mole?
or Krusty The Clown’s superfluous third nipple?
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 9, 2010 11:57 PM PST up reply actions
don't forget double-donged Denzel.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 10, 2010 12:08 AM PST up reply actions
Hey, watch it.
Only Bud can get erected in this thread.
m*****f***ing c***s***ing peanut butter and jelly!! f*** f*** f***!!!
Oh, I'm sure not even this thread can get Bud erected.
even if it had Rally Gilmore Girls!
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 10, 2010 10:32 AM PST up reply actions
No way.
I’ve never liked her. Now I know why: she’s a reptilian!
m*****f***ing c***s***ing peanut butter and jelly!! f*** f*** f***!!!
Somebody call David Icke!
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 10, 2010 12:20 AM PST up reply actions
well I didn't need any prodding to think she's hotter
But it makes her seem more normal, and somehow more attainable.
"Do I talk to myself? No, I just remind myself of what I'm trying to do. You know, I never answer myself so how can I be talking to myself?" - Rickey
by cuppingmaster on Feb 10, 2010 12:50 AM PST up reply actions
yeah, you're gonna nail her cause her hands are ugly.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 10, 2010 8:40 PM PST up reply actions
I liked Dorito Samurai

As far as the Super Bowl adds are concerned……
"I mean, come on, man. I'm a vet. Don't talk to me like that. If they do, I'll just smile." Nnamdi Asomugha
Um.
This, bitches.
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WOW! Read that wrong...
Didn’t see the “ED” at the end of erected. That’d make for one interesting statue. It’s funny how something as simple as ED can really put a damper on things. I’ll leave this one wide open for whoever wants it…(<—— and that one)

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