But he is realistic: a two-team contraction is more likely.
But in Congressional testimony last year, when Selig trumpeted a two-team contraction, "he referred to me as an interested outside observer".
"There were a lot of people in the game who are in favor of four-team contraction," Commissioner Bud Selig ominously said after the owners voted yesterday in Chicago to begin with the elimination of two teams.
He seemed to be another robber baron owner, one who had actually offered up his team for contraction.
His proposed solutions include eliminating four to six teams through contraction and consolidation.
Contraction Ruling Delayed Given the owners' desire to eliminate two teams through contraction, would they rather eliminate them that way or through bankruptcy's Chapter 7, under which a company liquidates its assets and goes out of business?
He tried to persuade Congress not to strip Major League Baseball of part of its antitrust exemption as it applies to team movement or contraction, as is being considered in a bill sponsored by Representative John Conyers Jr., Democrat of Michigan.
As part of the lawsuit, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, the companies seek an injunction preventing Major League Baseball from moving the Expos to another city or eliminating the team through its contraction plan.
Findings from the study revealed that extension of time, cost overruns, loss of profit, disputes, poor quality of work due to hurrying the project, creates stress to the client, acceleration losses, bad reputation with contraction team, claims and delay in getting profit by the client were the major effects of construction projects schedule overruns in Gauteng, South Africa.
How? Move teams scheduled for contraction to big cities like Boston, New York and Los Angeles.
