“This is a great day for Major League Baseball,” stand-in commissioner Bud Selig tells us at the beginning of the expansion draft. And I’m thinking, “Oh yeah.” . . . Even Ernie Banks wouldn’t buy into the phony goodwill that was spread like manure at Wednesday’s draft. This wasn’t a great day for baseball. It was another sad day in maybe the bleakest month since the Black Sox scandal. We saw teams such as Pittsburgh and Milwaukee, and others, surrender prospects they couldn’t afford to lose. All of the time and effort spent developing these players netted these impoverished franchises nothing. . . . There is no Hot Stove League anymore, just a four-alarm fire. A great day for baseball? You have to be kidding.
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