Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, second from left, joins members of a group approved to buy the San Diego Padres, from left, Ron Fowler, Peter Seidler and Kevin O'Malley after a meeting of baseball owners in Denver on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. Fowler, the chief executive of Liquid Investments, will become the controlling owner of the franchise if the purchase price of around $800 million is accepted by current Padres owner John Moores. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)