I knew who John Dowd was, but he wasn't connected at all with baseball.
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So his choices are he can do nothing and sort of fudge it -- but you can't get away with that. The public and Congress are going to want something done. ... I've said this about Bud, and I think I'm right, his first instinct is always wrong. The second is almost always right.Fay Vincent
This is 10 times, maybe 50 times more difficult. I would guess it would take at least a year.
Fay Vincent
We think he made money betting on baseball. And people are stupid. They say, 'Why do you care if he bet on his own team' Well, that is the point, you care because that night when he is betting he brings in his best relief pitcher. The next night when he isn't betting he can bring in anybody. The game is corrupted.
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What a great sadness there is that we didn't do this 30 or 40 years ago.
Fay Vincent
He's in a very tough situation, and that's why I think it's the worst problem for baseball since the Black Sox. Because it's so amorphous and so big and so murky. ... For the first time Selig has the awkward position of having to authorize an investigation where he may be a target. No commissioner has ever been in that position.
Fay Vincent
I don't think the players union could do much about it if he decides the records are not going to exist anymore. It's something the commissioner has pretty strong jurisdiction over.
Fay Vincent
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