Morry Gash - AP
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
iheartyourfart - January 23, 2012
Let this ownership saga END!
MrDanielX - January 24, 2012
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…
athletics68 - January 24, 2012
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?
wegotballsley - January 24, 2012
Translation from Selig to english
Expeditiously: Sometime in the next decade
field39 - January 24, 2012
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.
athletics68 - January 25, 2012
I did not see anything on Crasnick's twitter page.
field39 - January 25, 2012
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.
athletics68 - January 25, 2012
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.
field39 - January 25, 2012
If it is true, we are back at the beginning of the need a new owner loop.
field39 - January 25, 2012
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.
athletics68 - January 25, 2012
If true
We are in the uncomfortable position of being thankful to Bud Selig.
field39 - January 25, 2012
I'd rather be thankful to Bud Selig
Than see our payroll plummet to the league minimum when the Moorad group realizes they wrote a check their bodies can’t cash.
athletics68 - January 25, 2012
Maybe
But plenty of news isn’t tweeted by sources all the time. We’ll see I’m sure in the next few days.
athletics68 - January 25, 2012
twitter > hacksaw
unless hacksaw had a twitter
iheartyourfart - January 25, 2012
Hacksaw is too old to have a Twitter
That said I don’t blame him. Twitter is aptly named for the twits that use it.
athletics68 - January 25, 2012
Twitter is not a news source.
Users on Twitter are.
Darklighter - January 25, 2012
Some are
Some just like to think they are
And most are just twits going about their day…
As you can probably tell I have nothing but contempt for Twitter.
athletics68 - January 25, 2012
Most of the baseball writers
tweet on regular basis. Every Padre story this off season, showed up first on twitter.
field39 - January 25, 2012
That's kind of my point.
There’s plenty of idiots with radio shows, newspaper columns, TV segments, and blogs, too. That doesn’t make radio, newspapers, TV, or blogs irrelevant. The medium is not the message.
Darklighter - January 25, 2012
no you have to follow kim kardashian
its in the twitter terms of use agreement
iheartyourfart - January 26, 2012
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