Padres strike out naming plaza for Bud Selig
There are 10,000 personalized bricks in the section of Petco Park off Tony
Gwynn Drive that until Tuesday was known as Palm Court Plaza.
The San Diego Padres are pretty lucky that fans can't remove those bricks so
easily.
If that sounds harsh, you missed all the scorn and animosity that Padres fans
heaped on the team Tuesday night after it announced the plaza would now be
called the Selig Hall of Fame Plaza after outgoing Major League Baseball
Commissioner Bud Selig.
Selig, of course, is the longtime executive who presided over the expansion
of the playoffs and baseball's steroid era, over a massive rewriting of the
record books and the strike year that ended with Tony Gwynn hitting .394,
which is probably as close as anyone will ever again come to recording that
elusive season-long .400 batting average.
Oh, and Selig also presided over the infamous tie All Star Game.
What's he done locally, you ask? Well, he did give a green light to Jeff
Moorad to basically buy the Padres from then-owner John Moores on layaway
with money he didn't really have and run the team into the ground (or at
least spin its wheels for several years.)
But don't take my word for it. Here's just some of the objections that fans
raised Tuesday after the Padres showed some love to the retiring commissioner.
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http://tinyw.in/hOGS
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