# Bud Selig can go fuck himself **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 24, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881 "2004-09-24T15:15:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/1 "2004-09-24T15:15:46Z")
Major League Baseball has banned Red Sox legend Johnny Pesky from the Sox dugout. Pesky has been with the organization for 52 years. The right field foul pole is named after him ferchrissake. Only a bloodless, soulless, goat-felching prick would do something like this. Way to pick on an 85 year old man, you bastard. [Pesky’s story](http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/07/30/still_hangin_around/) [Bud Selig is the spawn of satan](http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/09/24/burks_is_back_for_a_fond_farewell?pg=2) Fuckers. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/2 "2004-09-24T15:20:28Z")
I read both stories, but I don’t understand why he was banned. Is there more info on this? ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/3 "2004-09-24T15:35:01Z")
I haven’t found any more info either. I can understand having SOME restrictions on who’s in the dugout but he’s not just some random guy off the street plus he’s been there all season… I sent a nasty e-mail to Major League Baseball–maybe they’ll clue me in. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/4 "2004-09-24T15:37:16Z")
There’s probably a rule that says you must be a member of the roster or ML coaching staff to stay in the dugout during the game. [Pesky isn’t.](http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/bos/team/bos_team_coachesstaff.jsp?club_context=bos) ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/5 "2004-09-24T15:41:28Z")
Ahhhh, good old [Rule 3.17](http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/official_info/official_rules/game_preliminaries_3.jsp) > [@](#): > > 3.17 > Players and substitutes of both teams shall confine themselves to their team’s benches unless actually participating in the play or preparing to enter the game, or coaching at first or third base. **No one except players, substitutes, managers, coaches, trainers and bat boys shall occupy a bench during a game.** PENALTY: For violation the umpire may, after warning, remove the offender from the field. Players on the disabled list are permitted to participate in pre game activity and sit on the bench during a game but may not take part in any activity during the game such as warming up a pitcher, bench jockeying, etc. Disabled players are not allowed to enter the playing surface at any time or for any purpose during the game. ---
**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/6 "2004-09-24T15:56:32Z")
I have Bud’s office number. Mods, is it OK for me to post it? ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/7 "2004-09-24T16:00:54Z")
> [@wmulax93](#): > > I have Bud’s office number. Mods, is it OK for me to post it? Email it to me if not? Weirddave0 at hotmail dot com. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/8 "2004-09-24T16:06:50Z")
Consider it sent. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/9 "2004-09-24T16:18:47Z")
What the name of all that is holy is “bench jockeying”? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/10 "2004-09-24T16:41:55Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > What the name of all that is holy is “bench jockeying”? I’d assume heckling the opposing team. I don’t know if it’d also include chatter for your team. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/11 "2004-09-24T16:47:31Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > Ahhhh, good old [Rule 3.17](http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/official_info/official_rules/game_preliminaries_3.jsp) Perhaps the Red Sox should symbolically hire Pesky as a coach. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/12 "2004-09-24T16:47:39Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > Ahhhh, good old [Rule 3.17](http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/official_info/official_rules/game_preliminaries_3.jsp) Is there a limit to how many coaches there can be? Or is there an extension of the dugout on one end where he could sit? If Bip Roberts\* can sit in the dugout during a game, this guy should be able to. \*-Bip helps with the Fox Sports Giants’ broadcasts. He’s more useless than Jai Rodriguez and Kim Bauer combined. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/13 "2004-09-24T16:56:06Z")
If Mr. Petsky isn’t one of the people allowed to sit on the bench under rule 3.17, then what’s the problem with not allowing him to sit on the bench? Shouldn’t MLB enforce their rules? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/14 "2004-09-24T16:59:25Z")
…and while we’re at it, how about another big, hearty Fuck You to Selig and that committee-thingy, for the non-decision on moving the Expos to DC. I know it’s still up in the air, but if this deal tanks because of Angelos, Washington-area residents ought not give that rat bastard another fucking dime. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/15 "2004-09-24T17:01:52Z")
:smack: wll, I guess that’s really two or three Fuck You’s, but what the hell, it’s the pit… ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/16 "2004-09-24T18:02:34Z")
> [@](#): > > The right field foul pole is named after him ferchrissake. You name your foul poles? :dubious: After people? :dubious: :dubious: As an honor? :dubious: :dubious: :dubious: Are you sure you didn’t misunderstand? I can imagine a situation where a player collides with the foul pole and misses a crucial catch. You then overhear someone yell “That pesky foul pole!”, but that doesn’t mean it was named after Johnny Pesky. Otherwise, I can see an 85 year old man proudly saying to his great-grandson “That there foul pole is named after me! No, not that one, the other one”. Sounds like someone not being quite good enough to have a road named after them and having to settle for a light pole. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/17 "2004-09-24T18:10:00Z")
> [@Doctor Jackson](#): > > You name your foul poles? :dubious: > After people? :dubious: :dubious: > As an honor? :dubious: :dubious: :dubious: > > Are you sure you didn’t misunderstand? I can imagine a situation where a player collides with the foul pole and misses a crucial catch. You then overhear someone yell “That pesky foul pole!”, but that doesn’t mean it was named after Johnny Pesky. > > Otherwise, I can see an 85 year old man proudly saying to his great-grandson “That there foul pole is named after me! No, not that one, the other one”. > > Sounds like someone not being quite good enough to have a road named after them and having to settle for a light pole. What is Pesky’s Pole? Even though Pesky’s Pole was dubbed that in the 1950s, the phrase really didn’t become popular until the late 1980s or early 1990s. According to former Red Sox star Johnny Pesky, it was Sox pitcher Mel Parnell who coined the term, after Pesky hit a home run just beyond Fenway Park’s right-field foul pole. That home run — one of only six homers Pesky ever hit at Fenway Park — won the game for Parnell. From [here](http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/bos/ballpark/facts.jsp) ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/18 "2004-09-24T18:19:33Z")
If not as a coach, why don’t they hire him as a batboy? They should give any bullshit job title that will get him into the dugout and Selig can go fuck himself. Why does bud Selig hate baseball so much? ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/19 "2004-09-24T18:36:53Z")
I can’t find anything in the rules limiting the number of coaches a team may have. The Sox should appoint Pesky “Deputy Bench Coach” or something similar and let him keep his spot. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881/20 "2004-09-24T18:48:31Z")
Like Selig is going to fuck himself. He’s an ugly man. That’s why he’s so bitter. Sheeesh. Even Selig has _some_ standards. Granted, we know those standards are low, but they at least aren’t _that_ low. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-can-go-fuck-himself/265881.md?page=2)