Despite environmental 'crisis'...Worldwide Draft back on table

Strange time to say a "worldwide" baseball draft is coming, as Bud did last week. This view is not compatible with Selig's imposed global warming/environmental crisis programs assigned to all MLB teams. Oil is scarce, and the pollution caused by new discretionary international air travel should make it off limits as MLB policy. The last 3 paragraphs in an MLB.com article with the title, "Report: Cubs Fined for Draft Violations."

• "At present, the Draft only includes amateur players from the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. The mechanism for devising a worldwide Draft was part of the 2002 collective bargaining agreement reached between MLB owners and the Players Association.

But the concept was ultimately abandoned because the owners thought the scouting system involved would be too costly....

• Last week at the annual Baseball Writers' Association of America luncheon in New York only hours prior to the All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium,

• Commissioner Bud Selig said discussion of a worldwide Draft is back on the table.

"I don't think it's any secret that support for a worldwide Draft is growing amongst all baseball people," Selig said. "I've had a lot of people, including a significant number of general managers, say to me in the last couple of months that they wish we had a worldwide draft. I think that's something we will discuss in the future.""

• From MLB.com, 7/21/08

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