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"FacebookPinterest\n\n Let us say a rare kind word about baseball's Acting Commissioner for Life here at the dawn of his 49th season\u2014yes, 49th\u2014in the game. It is true that Bud Selig is a grinning huckster who Sinclair Lewis might've invented if he'd hung around more used-car lots\u2014but it's also true that a modern sports commissioner's job is to be a grinning Rotarian huckster. And Bud Selig, by that rational, is the most accomplished commissioner in sports.\n\n Selig is a creature of his true constituents\u2014that would be the owners, not us\u2014and no matter how much they all lie about the state of their finances, he has done absurdly well by them, which is of course not the same thing as doing well by the game, its players, or its fans. He's a credentialed stick-up man, baseball's first commissioner to see himself as a sort of CEO, and he claimed unprecedented powers over the purse while organizing baseball's ever-fractious owners the way Marvin Miller once organized its players. David Stern, putatively the model commissioner for our global age, papers over the deep flaws in the NBA's \"big fish, little fish\" economic structure by peddling ever more basketball jerseys to China; meanwhile Selig, the hopeless old fud, has consistently identified fat new veins of revenue, from the publicly funded stadiums of the 1990s to the league's advanced-media arm, which now pulls in hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Go ahead, laugh at him. He surely doesn't care. He's too busy lifting that last, linty penny from our pocket."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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