{"id":1746,"date":"2005-09-09T15:17:13","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T15:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2005-09-09T15:17:13","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T15:17:13","slug":"bud_selig_inter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1746","title":{"rendered":"Bud Selig Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onmilwaukee.com\/buzz\/articles\/selig.html\">Tim Gutowski<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>What were the disappointments? Some controversies that I found disappointing in terms of human behavior. They tried to put a jail next to the ballpark &#8230; putting a jail next to a ballpark isn&#8217;t exactly an entertainment complex. And then the whole stadium controversy. And, look, I understand taxation. But here we are trying to keep baseball in Milwaukee &#8230; and it happens in a lot of places, this is not the only place it happens, but the Machiavellian behavior was just sad. And someday when I write a book I&#8217;ll describe it as it&#8217;s never been described. The personal abuse that the ownership took, I took, my daughter took, the organization took, baseball took &#8212; was inexcusable. And today, well how bad is it? Milwaukee has a Major League team for the next two generations. &#8230; It&#8217;s a great tribute to a lot of people. &#8230; Will Milwaukee in the future be a better place for your children and grandchildren? You bet it will.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I appreciate Bud&#8217;s gumption in making baseball happen.  BUT, I think the location (should have been downtown &#8211; see Denver and San Francisco) and process that lead to Miller Park was a big mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Gutowski: What were the disappointments? Some controversies that I found disappointing in terms of human behavior. They tried to put a jail next to the ballpark &#8230; putting a jail next to a ballpark isn&#8217;t exactly an entertainment complex. And then the whole stadium controversy. And, look, I understand taxation. But here we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}