When Higgins first took his job, Samuell was a state power in baseball, having won a title in 1965, the only baseball champion to come from the Dallas school system.
Mr. McCourt's action flouts one of baseball's most sacred tenets: That the commissioner's power to act "in the best interests of baseball" is essentially unlimited, giving him the right ban players and executives, reject unfair trades and, when necessary, control the operations of franchises.
Another retort is that it is fantasy baseball to believe the Commissioner would just give up his considerable power to veto loans and do whatever else he thinks is in the best interests of baseball by allowing a public corporation to make decisions that he cannot control.