->       I must say, I agree 1OO% with your message. I too
-> do not like seeing the changes in Baseball that you mentioned.
-> You are the 1st one of whom I think has the EXACT same thoughts as I
-> have.
Thank you... I'm glad to here there are other baseball fans out there who 
also feel the same way I do, that baseball's tradition is a wonderful thing 
and the changes in baseball in recent years have not been for the better...
I mean, I wonder what I enjoy more sometimes: Watching live games on TV, or 
coming across old films and clips from years ago....
I mean, the only three "moments" in recent history I still can watch again 
and again are Kirk Gibson's 1988 series home run, Joe Carter's 1993 series 
home run, and Sepember 6th, 1995, when Cal Ripken played in his 2131 straight 
game... Everything else, blah....
Though I do have to say that watching Roger Clemens in 1996 tie his own 
record with 20 strikeouts in a game was something else, especially since I 
never saw the game in 1986 against the lowly Mariners... But that's about 
it....
Baseball needs a real commisioner, badly. When they created the position of 
commisioner in 1920, Kenisaw Mountain Landis was put there as an unbiased 
third party to act in the best interests of BASEBALL, not the players, not 
the others, not himself, and not money. What kind of "commisioner" is Bud 
Selig, who is really "impartial" since he IS an owner!
I say: Reinstate Pete Rose, and to make up for his unfair punishment for 
something he never did, make HIM the commisioner!
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