MILWAUKEE (AP) -San Francisco Giants owner Peter Magowan dashed out of an executive council meeting about half an hour early Wednesday, then dodged questions about speculation he could announce he will step down.
Asked if he had made a decision on his future, Magowan said, “no.” As if this would be his final appearance at an owners’ meeting, Magowan said “no” as he boarded an elevator and the doors closed.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday that the club has scheduled a meeting with its ownership group Friday and Magowan, who has headed the team since 1993, will announce that he is stepping down as managing general partner. Giants spokeswoman Staci Slaughter told the paper that Magowan has occasionally has considered stepping down but had not made a decision.
Commissioner Bud Selig said Wednesday that there wasn’t any significance to Magowan’s early departure from the meeting, and he had heard “no discussion” about Magowan’s future.
“He had some place to go, and he told me that yesterday,” Selig said. “He had a board meeting or something.”
Magowan met with Selig earlier this year to talk about the Giants’ prominent mention in the Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.
Selig wouldn’t say definitively Wednesday whether any team executives had actually been punished in connection with the Mitchell Report’s findings, but hinted that punishments involving community service have been handed out.
“I spent many months debating all that, and the important thing was to move forward,” Selig said. “However, I think when somebody is asked to do many, many hours of community service, that’s what we should do.
“We’re trying to stop the use of all these things, working on it, and doing community service to me was a more meaningful mechanism to help solve this problem – and yet have all of our own people, players and management people, understand that obviously this is behavior that we want to move past. That’s why the community service really appealed to me.”
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