COLUMN: In a quote taken straight from the pages of The Onion, Commissioner Rob Manfred stupefied the nation Tuesday, after marathon talks collapsed between short-sighted owners and hard-headed players.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred in October, 2019. MLB and the Players’ Union have failed to reach an agreement so far and have canceled the first two series of the 2022 season. Maybe that’s not such a bad thing. It’s quite an accomplishment for a sport that generates billions in profits every year, entertains millions and confounds civilians.
“I had hoped against hope I wouldn’t have to have this press conference where I am going to cancel some regular season games,” Manfred said. “We worked hard to avoid an outcome that’s bad for our fans, bad for our players and bad for our clubs. Our failure to reach an agreement was not due to a lack of effort by either party.”
So congratulations once more baseball. Let me borrow a line from the Hollywood classic “Billy Madison”: “At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”…We can finally focus on Cricket. Sticky wickets with less ding-bats.…No baseball should ease the Sheboygan supply chain crisis.
While Kyiv burns, Manfred & Co. are fiddling around with competitive-balance tax thresholds, minimum salary and the ever-pressing bonus pool for pre-arbitration players.
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