Bush gives UNQUALIFIED baseball owners ambassadorships!

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Playing ball: Baseball has been very, very good to President Bush - who reaped a $14 million windfall profit when he sold his stake in the Texas Rangers years ago. And Bush has been very good to major-league baseball owners.

Mother Jones magazine reports that at least five current and former owners are Bush-appointed U.S. ambassadors, including former Seattle Mariners owner George Argyros , now ambassador to Spain despite his inability to habla español; Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals co-owner Mercer Reynolds III , now ambassador to Switzerland, who speaks neither German nor Italian; St. Louis Cardinals co-owner Stephen Brauer , our man in Brussels, who doesn't speak French or Flemish; Texas Rangers co-owner Jeffrey Marcus , who very briefly was appointed ambassador to Belgium but never reported for duty because of sticky divorce proceedings; and former Texas Rangers co-owner and Bush cousin-by-marriage Craig Stapleton , ambassador to the Czech Republic, who reportedly stormed out of a tough meeting on Iraq with the Czech prime minister and undiplomatically slammed the door behind him.
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