Bud Selig is reportedly “irate” that the New York Mets had the audacity to question his decision barring the club to wear special hats commemorating the 10-year anniversary of 9/11.
According to the New York Post, Selig called the Mets on Sunday night upset that the club had gone public about Major League Baseball preventing players from wearing the caps of 9/11 first responders for the game against the Chicago Cubs at Citi Field.
Selig was ticked off because the Mets had “thrown him under the bus” and that the club had publicly embarrassed him, but as usual MLB’s commissioner only has himself to blame.
What Selig should be most embarrassed about is his idiotic decision to disallow Mets players – and Cubs players too, for that matter – to wear any first responder cap they wanted.
Anyone watching the Dallas Cowboys-New York Jets game on Sunday night at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey would have noticed coaches and players wearing first responder caps embroidered with “FDNY” or “NYPD.”
It doesn’t come as a surprise that the National Football League had their act together commemorating the anniversary of 9/11 while Selig and MLB botched it miserably.
What’s most puzzling is how Selig seems to be shocked over the backlash he’s received once word got out that MLB denied the Mets request to wear the caps.
On a day when we commemorated one of the most tragic events in our nation’s history, Selig wasn’t smart enough to allow Mets’ players to wear caps honoring those that gave their lives to help others in the city where the most heinous of the terrorist attacks occurred.
In what should have been a no-brainer decision even for someone as intellectually inept as Selig, you’d think he would have consulted with those “top baseball people” he’s always referring to before arriving at a decision that makes no sense.
Then again, we’re talking about Bud Selig, the biggest buffoon to ever hold the office of commissioner in MLB history.
Now Selig is mad because everyone in the sports world and beyond knows that he’s an idiot, and that’s something he’s been trying to hide from the public since he took over as MLB commissioner.
But Selig can’t hide from this. If you can’t make a simple decision as easy as this was to make, then there’s no hope for him or for baseball.
I’ve said for years that until Bud Selig is gone, baseball will always find themselves in these embarrassing situations because he’s incapable of making smart decisions.
And I don’t have to prove it, Selig has done all the proving for me.
