Submitted by laurent courtines, Jul 5, 2007 17:46

I agree whole heartedly with your piece. Baseball fans on the whole are too conservative. They tend not to see the good that Selig has done. He centralized the power of the league office. He did away with the innane NL and AL separate but equal thing and has lead by consensus. There is now ONE set of umpires, ONE president of the league and central power. It is good for the game! Andrew Zimbalist's great book on Selig and the commissioner ship on a the whole, really illustrates that Selig, AMAZINGLY enough is by far, and I mean, HEAD AND SHOULDERS above any commissioner baseball ever had. While not on the level of the titans Rozelle and David Stern, Selig at least has set an example of how baseball can be governed. Not only that, he has shown that indeed the league can be governed at all! Think about it? You don't hear about maverick owners anymore? Selig has made sure that everyone toes the party line!

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