In 1996 Gov. Tommy Thompson went on a bike ride for Bud Selig--

Why would George Steinbrenner have anything good to say about 'Bud' Selig? In 1993, Selig reinstated Steinbrenner into baseball from a lifetime ban imposed by Fay Vincent. The Yankee fan is left with the reality Selig can rip them off indefinitely because of this.

• How does Selig go about getting money? A Townhall.com writer born in Milwaukee was interested, 1/18/08:

(Townhall.com): "The Milwaukee media are impressed with, even awestruck by Selig. Their slobbering is embarrassing. They were impressed that Bud was "Acting Commissioner" with a then $1 million salary on top of what he leeches from the team. "Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentlemen," George Bernard Shaw said.

• That technique plays well in Milwaukee, my birthplace, a town whose pseudo-urbane mavens crave big-time, East Coast publicity. Milwaukee has a raging inferiority complex. We're always on edge. People from New York confuse Milwaukee with Minneapolis. Milwaukee is best remembered for the gruesome Jeffrey Dahmer and its very bad drinking water that poisoned thousands in a 1993 epidemic caused by negligence at the municipal water works....

...Milwaukee's publicity junkies and status seekers needed to keep the Acting Commissioner happy; and to be happy, Buddy Boy needed a new stadium. Then he could show George Steinbrenner and baseball's other owners that his own people treat him like a real Major Leaguer.

• The Milwaukee media's love affair with Bud is like "the worship of jackals by jackasses", as Mr. Mencken would say."...

(In other words, that's how it's done. First get the media.....) sm

• From article on Townhall.com by Paleo-Lumenariest, "Bud Selig: Baseball's Top Welfare Queen, 1/18/08

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