Rob Manfred succeeds Bud Selig

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Major league baseball will have a new commissioner as of 1 January, 2015, when Rob Manfred takes over from Bud Selig.

Manfred is a labor relations specialist; in other words, he ain't gonna be another A. Bartlett Giamatti. Alas.

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Major league baseball will have a new commissioner as of 1 January, 2015, when Rob Manfred takes over from Bud Selig.

Manfred is a labor relations specialist; in other words, he ain't gonna be another A. Bartlett Giamatti. Alas.

Let's hope he doesn't have another strike. It took me a couple of years to be bothered watching MLB after that.

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Can you imagine Bud Selig ever penning something like the following?

“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.”

Baseball fans need another commissioner like Giamatti.

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Can you imagine Bud Selig ever penning something like the following?

“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.”

Baseball fans need another commissioner like Giamatti.

I liked him too. I always felt that the Pete Rose Betting Scandal was a major reason Giamatti passed away in office.

While at his vacation home on Martha's Vineyard, Giamatti, a heavy smoker for many years, died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 51, just eight days after banishing Pete Rose and 154 days into his tenure as commissioner.

It's also why I doubt if that self-serving jerk will ever be in the HOF. Smoking - schmoking. It was Pete and always will be in my mind.