I'm afraid it won't happen
next year. It should happen next
year, and this would put an end to
the hopscotch, the ball clubs,
but unfortunately, baseball never
seems to do anything in an
intelligent, aggressive manner.
And so they'll wait until
complete disaster is upon them and
then they'll decide to expand.
I believe this would be a good time
for a couple of reasons.
But bear in mind that it
would have to be it would have to be
also include a new
system of player procurement
that is
an unrestricted draft,
a free agent draft and
an equalization draft
that so that the new clubs would
have a chance at getting some good
ballplayers and you wouldn't create
another Metzer, another Washington
senators.
But I'm afraid it's going to be
probably taken until there's a new
commissioner,
a fellow who is willing
to recognize the the
problems that beset
baseball and to try and
do something about them.
There needs more power than he has.
Well, that's an alibi on on
port for export.
You mean to tell me that he suddenly
discovered this only, you know,
after 14 years, he suddenly
discovered he didn't have enough
power? No.
I think that what he needs you
need is a man who was willing to
take full
and complete use
of the authority. He does have.
You see in
almost anything that required
the required the
additional power he's talking about,
the commissioner could have gone
right ahead and done that because it
would have had the press and
the entire public behind him.
And if he didn't do that, it's
only because he was trying to
perpetuate a job.
And I don't think that this is a
reasonable basis for the selection
or the maintenance of a
commissioner.