"Bud Selig, the commissioner of baseball, did not believe it was his place to overturn Joyce's call."

"He did not want to open that sort of Pandora's box, and it is absolutely a fair and reasonable position to take. Selig has never used his immense best-interests-of-the-game powers even though he has threatened to do that a few times, and didn't do it here, even though I believe he should have."