XM MLB Chat: Notes from AP sports editors' annual meeting with Bud Selig, Inc.

Notes from AP Sports Editors' meeting with Allan H. "Bud" Selig, 4/24/08

1.(AP report): "-About $350 million was transferred last year in revenue sharing, according to (Rob) Manfred, who said the total is expected to increase to approximately $393 million this year."

I appreciate notation of the number given out by MLB, Inc. Which reporter will find out precisely how the money was spent? (sm)

2. (AP report): "MLB hasn't been persuaded that there is a validated HGH test.

"They took 2,000 tests four years ago," Selig )said). "We've never seen the results. No one's ever seen the results.""

(WADA has a secret company it claims makes a reliable test kit. They refuse to name the company, just that it's somewhere in Europe).

3. (AP): "Fehr said wasn't bothered by the assertion of Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, who said "steroids is strictly a Don Fehr problem and creation" during an interview on Comcast SportsNet.

"Ever since he bought the White Sox, Jerry feels an obligation every now and then to stick a pin in me," Fehr said. "When the owners unilaterally implemented terms and conditions of employment after the strike in 1994, they could have implemented drug testing. They didn't. Bud did not even implement it in the minor leagues until 2001.""

4. (Bob) DuPuy said "the coalition at county commission level is tenuous" for the Florida Marlins' proposed new ballpark.

5. (Donald) Fehr said changes in the format of the Hall of Fame Veterans Committee made it a
"foregone conclusion that Marvin Miller would never be elected."

Miller, the former union leader whose strategies helped create free agency and multimillion-dollar salaries, received 51 of 81 (63 percent) in early 2007, falling 10 votes shy of the needed 75 percent.

Miller got just three of 12 votes in December. "It makes me sort of very sad," Fehr said."*****

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