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 ...