Bud Selig won't say whether or not he's regretting Major League Baseball's decision to make the Mets wear their regular caps on Sept. 11. However, he doesn't sound like he's hiding from the decision either.
MLB's commissioner has come under a lot of fire in the last week after MLB told the Mets that they could not wear hats that honored first responders in New York City like the NYPD or FDNY.
Yet, the commissioner has no problems with how baseball remembered the tragic events of 10 years ago.
"To say that we were disrespectful in any way is wrong," Selig told the Sporting News. "I watched all of the ceremonies Sunday, and one was more beautiful than the other. The Mets had a 24-minute ceremony. I watched. It was really emotional. In comparison to anybody else, we honored 9/11 with as much respect as we possibly could."
According to the report, Selig declined to say whether or not he regretted the decision to make the Mets wear their MLB-issued hats. He did say, however, stand behind the league's uniform code.
"We made a decision and I give Joe Torre great credit for it," Selig told the magazine. "The uniform is such a nature that we have to be very careful not to make exceptions. It isn't that we didn't recognize [the anniversary]. Look at the totality of what we did, how we did it, why we did it. That's my comment."
