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Selig has built an effective partnership between owners and players, increased the audience size & spend, seen that baseball adapted early and intelligently to emerging technology, and created the World Baseball Classic.
Yeah, he's mis-stepped on the Direct TV stuff, Interleague play and the tied All-Star Game. But, overall, not bad.
Oh, wait, you interpret the responsibilities of the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball to consist mostly of making up invasive, paternalistic, ex-post-facto rules to fight on a particularly futile front in the Drug War.
"Shut up, Mulder, I'm playing baseball."
