Subj : World Series
To   : Joe Siegler
From : Steve Quarrella
Date : Tue Nov 13 2001 04:29 am

->> Wouldn't you move Milwaukee back to the AL?
 JS> Well, you could do that, but Selig owns the Brewers, so I
 JS> don't see them going anywhere.

I thought he had to give up his interest in the Brewers to be commissioner, 
although ISTR his daughter is calling the shots there now.  Am I wrong about 
that?  If he's commissioner and he has an interest in a team, he needs to be 
dumped.  Then again, the commissioner has been effectively castrated, bit by 
bit, over the years.  Could you imagine if a guy like Judge Landis tried to run 
baseball today as he did eighty years ago?

->> Wouldn't the folks in Baltimore feel threatened by the
->> competition?

 JS> Peter Angelos has already threatened lawsuits against putting
 JS> someone in DC - claiming that's "his territory".  Best guess

I wonder how the old Senators felt when the Browns came to town.

 JS> bitch, and it'll get settled with $.   I really want the
 JS> Twins back in DC as the Senators again.

I was curious to know:  How DID that work?  I know the original Senators moved 
to the Twin Cities (when?).  When did a second Senators team come into 
existence?  It was '71 or '72 when they moved to Arlington, IIRC, although 
there was that exchange we had awhile back about how I had seen the baseball 
cards of a San Diego Padres team dressed in Washington Senators uniforms.

->> point, and thought "Wait a sec...they traditionally do fairly well."  If
->> someone's logic was "Well, the Bay Area already has two
->> teams," Texas has two teams, New York has two teams, Los
->> Angeles has two teams, Chicago has two teams, etc.
 JS> There's a lot of talk (although I doubt it will happen) of
 JS> putting a third team in the NY area, the region can certainly

I bet someone's got the nostalgia bug to put a team in Brooklyn, right?  Uh, 
they're in LA now, guys.

 JS> Speaking of Steinbrenner, whatever happened to that lifetime
 JS> ban baseball gave him many years ago?  Seem to recall it only

As Holly would say, "I don't remember this."

 JS> Egad - perhaps I could write something for Fidosnooze about
 JS> the echo.  :)

That'd be great.  Just ignore the idiots who complain that that's only of 
interest to Zone 1.

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