Padres decide to approve Bud Selig as Commissioner later, via phone presumably

by Dex on Jan 23, 2012 3:03 PM PST

So it looks like John Moores just didn't want to be the only one leaving Arizona with his fate left up in the air as he has apparently now gone ahead and voted "yay" for letting Bud Selig remain Commissioner of Baseball.

If you'll remember, the owners meetings were supposed to be a time for the owners to go ahead and approve the transfer of ownership from John Moores to Jeff Moorad, but was unexpectedly tabled. Selig at the time said that the vote could probably be finalized at a later date by phone, to which Moores apparently responded by voting a NO on letting Selig become commissioner again.

But now, cooler heads have prevailed and Moores has fallen in line and seen the light. Of course Selig should be commissioner. Of course.

In my mind, however, what this means is that the Padres ownership transfer will happen any second now. Any second... Waiting... Twiddling...

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i see bud selig's face

and understand how tyler the creator feels about bruno mars

by iheartyourfart on Jan 23, 2012 4:58 PM PST reply actions

Let this ownership saga END!

Padres Fan.

by MrDanielX on Jan 24, 2012 7:14 AM PST reply actions

Is it bad that I read this "Padres decide to approve Bud Selig as comissioner posthumously"

I thought for a minute I had missed some big news somewhere…

by athletics68 on Jan 24, 2012 1:27 PM PST reply actions 1 recs

How did that work? Moores voted 'no' on offering an extension to Selig,

but voted ‘yes’ to approve the extension after it was offered? Well, I guess they’re still friends.
The first vote was a rhetorical one, but the second means, okay, it’s done, now let’s see what
you meant by “expeditiously” addressing the ownership question.

Wait a minute – did Selig use “expeditiously” when talking about the A’s move to San Jose?

by wegotballsley on Jan 24, 2012 2:07 PM PST reply actions

Translation from Selig to english

Expeditiously: Sometime in the next decade

by field39 on Jan 24, 2012 2:37 PM PST up reply actions

Did anyone else hear Hacksaw this morning?

He claimed Crasnick came out with a report that MLB has said that they will not be granting Moorad permission to take over 100% of the Padres due to his financing model. Apparently the Fox deal IS going to be used to pay back Moores and that would leave the Pads with no year to year income to pay guys like Maybin long term deals. Essentially the Pads would become the A’s.

by athletics68 on Jan 25, 2012 11:08 AM PST reply actions

I did not see anything on Crasnick's twitter page.

by field39 on Jan 25, 2012 1:33 PM PST up reply actions

Neither did I

But then that really doesn’t mean anything since Twitter isn’t really a reliable news source. However if true my opinion of Moorad is about to go from favorable to unfavorable. I don’t want Moorad buying the team either if he’s going to be doing so by leveraging the team’s future to pay for it.

by athletics68 on Jan 25, 2012 1:40 PM PST up reply actions

Most news like that shows up in the twitterverse.

At the very least I would expect that the person breaking it, would of tweeted it.

by field39 on Jan 25, 2012 1:42 PM PST up reply actions

If it is true, we are back at the beginning of the need a new owner loop.

by field39 on Jan 25, 2012 1:55 PM PST up reply actions

If it's true

I’m glad we are. I’d rather be stuck with post-divorce less money Moores for a few more years than apparently no money Moorad. If he doesn’t have the money to buy the team without taking money from the team, then he shouldn’t be buying the team. It’s just a recipe for problems later on as the Dodger found out.

by athletics68 on Jan 25, 2012 2:12 PM PST up reply actions