Rob Manfred Must Think We’re Morons
Photo: Patrick Smith (Getty) During a press conference with reporters on Sunday, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred stood in front of God and everyone and argued that the labor situation in baseball—a sport in which player payroll has declined as league revenues have gone up, more teams than ever are openly tanking, and two 26-year-old superstar free agents remain unsigned as spring training starts—is actually just fine. Manfred made his case by deploying the kind of bad-faith arguments you’d see every night on Tucker Carlson’s show if Tucker Carlson were interested in baseball instead of white...
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