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Bud Selig doubles down (or is it triples down?) on the “no one wants replay” thing

File photo of MLB Commissioner Bud Selig during a news conference in New York

Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig smiles during a news conference in New York, in this April 21, 2011 file photograph. The Los Angeles Dodgers filed for bankruptcy protection on June 27, 2011, blaming Selig for rejecting a television deal with Fox Network to give the financially strapped baseball team a quick injection of cash. Today’s filing marks a dramatic attempt by Dodgers owner Frank McCourt to keep the league from seizing the storied team, which he has owned since 2004. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: SPORT BASEBALL BUSINESS)

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Bud Selig was on the Waddle and Silvy show and went farther than he ever has on the “no one wants replay” thing. And, once again, pointed to attendance as the reason why no innovation is needed:

When I said there is no appetite for further replay I wasn’t kidding. There’s none. There’s some people that think I maybe have done more than they hoped I would do.”

On the fans clamoring for Instant Replay:

“I’m not sure that is true. We do a lot of polling, I talk to a lot of fans, I get a lot of mail everyday and I answer every piece of mail here. Guess what guys, I get almost no letters, calls or thoughts on Instant Replay. By the way and I say this and I don’t want it to sound, we’re setting attendance records.


(1) name one person inside the game who will actually say, on the record, that baseball has gone too far with replay. I would like to know who this is. No, Joe Torre and other people who serve at the pleasure of Bud Selig don’t count; and

(2) I have no doubt that, among people who actually sit down and write longhand letters and mail them to Bud Selig via the Postal Service, replay is not desired. That’s because these are people who can’t get the “12:00" on their top-loader VHS machines to stop flashing.

But, publish Bud Selig’s personal email address and let’s see if that remains the same ...