Fay Vincent
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"Francis Thomas "Fay" Vincent, Jr." is a former entertainment lawyer and sports executive who served as the eighth Commissioner of Baseball/Commissioner of Major League Baseball from September 13, 1989 in baseball/1989 to September 7, 1992 in baseball/1992.

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He doesn't like commissioners.

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

I think he (Selig) is probably better able to get support among owners, ... But they're trying to roll back 25 years of labor agreements in one round. I was telling them the best you can do is incremental improvement -  it's going to take a long time to straighten out this. They didn't want to hear that.

There's nothing legally [Selig] can do, but if I were him I'd go out and see Bonds, and I would try to get him to tell me exactly what the truth is. Depending on what he tells me, I'd try to get him to go public and tell the public what the truth is.

I respect him because he's very bright. I think he's very committed to his franchises.

I don't think Bud wants a major confrontation. On other hand he wants major changes, and that's going to lead to a major confrontation, ... The union is very well run. They win all the legal fights and baseball has to fold. There isn't much history that says the owners have a very good chance.

Records set now have to have some sort of a cloud and might be tainted by what [the players] have been taking, if they've in fact been taking it. But we don't know what they're taking. We still need a lot more facts.

Confronts his past with very little remorse.

I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.