Reply #24: Monkeyboy actually wanted to be baseball commish!

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http://www2.jsonline.com/sports/brew/sep02/80787.asp?format=print

A new book by former baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent claims Bud Selig once told George W. Bush, then the owner of the Texas Rangers, that Bush would make a fine baseball commissioner, even though Vincent strongly believed Selig was maneuvering to get the job.

"Fay, what do you think about me becoming commissioner?" Bush asked Vincent several months after Vincent was forced out as commissioner in September 1992.

"I think it's a great idea," Vincent said.

"Do you think I'd make a good commissioner?" Bush asked Vincent.

"Absolutely," Vincent answered. "You're smart. You love baseball. Is it something you want?"

Replied Bush: "Well, I've been thinking about it. Selig tells me that he would love to have me be commissioner and he tells me that he can deliver it."

As Vincent writes in the book, "The Last Commissioner," "All my alarms went ringing at once."