07/15/2002 - Updated 08:53 PM ET Commenting on the decision to call off last week's All-Star Game after 11 innings, former commissioner Fay Vincent was critical of baseball's current regime, including Commissioner Bud Selig. "It was just awful," Vincent said Sunday on ESPN Radio. "The general consensus was that it was a disaster for baseball. The brand of baseball was hurt very badly. ... The whole thing made baseball look like a joke." He also said the decision to call the All-Star Game a tie is going to raise questions among owners about baseball's leadership. "I'd be astonished if there aren't a fair number of owners who wonder if they're in the right hands." Vincent said. "Bud seems to have gotten some very bad advice." Vincent, who was pushed out of office by baseball's owners in 1992, also chimed in on the current state of baseball. "A total mess," he called it. "If there were stock in baseball, it would be hitting a new low. It's as low as it can possibly go." http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/stories/2002-07-15-vincent.htm
"The whole thing made baseball look like a joke. Nobody was thinking. The quality of intellectual effort was very, very low. How do you screw up an All-Star Game? These guys managed to do that. That's pretty hard to do. It's almost impossible to have an All-Star Game end on a disastrous note." This was the best quote from Vincent. Hmm... could he be holding some resentment about being ousted as Commish?
