31.   Players have a right to appeal the penalties, but the appeals are heard by the same league presidents who imposed them.

32.   Salary arbitration is handled by the commissioner and the two league presidents.

33.   Selig and the league presidents, Len Coleman and Gene Budig, met with Newt Gingrich, the new speaker of the House.

34.   So Len Coleman and Gene Budig, the two new league presidents, will each pass his first year in office without a pennant winner to show for it.

35.   So did the idiot league president and the idiot Players Association leaders.

36.   Stallings, his biggest supporter, had a running feud with league president Ban Johnson over the umpiring and lost his job at the end of the season.

37.   Some delays, of course, cannot be legislated out of the game by the league presidents.

38.   The executive council is made up of four owners from each league and the two league presidents.

39.   The council is made up of Selig, both league presidents and team owners.

40.   The league president, William Donohue, however, said the group disavowed and repudiated violence.