{"id":8692,"date":"2020-06-16T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/rob-manfred-showing-his-true-colors-as-he-lets-baseball-burn\/"},"modified":"2020-06-16T03:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T00:08:00","slug":"rob-manfred-showing-his-true-colors-as-he-lets-baseball-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/rob-manfred-showing-his-true-colors-as-he-lets-baseball-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"#Rob Manfred showing his true colors as he lets baseball burn"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Rob Manfred showing his true colors as he lets baseball burn<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 15, 2020 |<\/span> 8:08pm <\/p>\n

\n This is no longer about the greater good of the nation, or the admittedly pie-eyed notion that baseball could ever really have been a salve for the deep fissures and fractures that plague us in these dreadful days of worry and uncertainty. That was a nice notion, a throwback to a time when baseball was a pastime.<\/p>\n

And not passed its time.<\/p>\n

That is what baseball is now, a pitiable wreck, an irredeemable embarrassment. We wanted so much more from the game<\/a> but, then, we always want more, we always expect more, we always hope for more, and we always get kicked in the teeth when there are real stakes on the table. Why we expected more this time around is on us, and maybe illustrates just how badly we wanted stolen whispers of normalcy. We thought baseball could give us that. Fool me once, shame on you.<\/p>\n

Fool me nine times since 1972?<\/p>\n

Shame on us.<\/p>\n

Of course, no one bears a greater burden of the shame than Rob Manfred, baseball\u2019s loudest carnival barker, who speaks now with a tongue so forked it is all but impossible to keep track of his spinning and his shucking and his utter contempt for the people \u2014 you, me, us \u2014 for whom he would tell you he is a safeguard. Nonsense. He does the bidding for the owners, for the 30-man cabal of billionaires who cry poverty even as television networks line up to refortify their coffers with still more billions. That\u2019s fine; technically he is their servant and they are his collective master. So enough with the notion that he shepherds the game. Enough with the hoary old chestnut that a commissioner exists to protect \u201cthe good of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Not this commissioner. Manfred has proven time and again that he views the sport with all the reverence of a highway pit stop, and the fans with all the respect due a litter box. That\u2019s who he is. That\u2019s what the job is to him. From here on, never forget that.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t to grant a pass to Tony Clark, the fundamentally overmatched head of the players union, who ought to have the moral high ground here and yet has allowed a quorum of chatty agents and angry players to sully his message. Every day he is on the job is a sad reminder that Marvin Miller \u2014 due to be enshrined in Cooperstown this year before COVID-19 altered everyone\u2019s summer schedule \u2014 isn\u2019t walking through that door. Miller may still annoy hard-line, old-time fans who yearn for the game\u2019s simpler days (also known as days when the owners could do whatever and however they pleased) but he would\u2019ve had his way with a lightweight like Manfred. He would\u2019ve gotten his message across and he would have beaten the owners, again, without them feeling as if they\u2019d been mugged on the street. That was Miller. That\u2019s not Clark. That\u2019s never been Clark.<\/p>\n

But, then it is also not Clark\u2019s duty to safeguard and shepherd the game, only to be steadfast to the union and its rank and file, to honor decades of hard-line leadership that has allowed baseball players their various freedoms and riches. His is a specific constituency.<\/p>\n

Manfred? It\u2019s his stated mission to grow the game, to make it more app<\/a>ealing to a wider audience, to keep it healthy, and yet in his time and on his watch the game\u2019s reputation has continued to sink and its interest to a younger generation has practically vanished. He specialized in half-measures during the Astros mess. His various and sundry \u201cfixes\u201d \u2014 most still in the proposal stage \u2014 have done little to attract new fans but have done much to try at all costs to alienate existing ones.<\/p>\n

But his performance during this alleged \u201cnegotiation\u201d has been especially galling. He has allowed his people to leak inflammatory letters in a half-baked attempt to secure the side of the angels. For someone who came to the job so deeply schooled in baseball\u2019s labor history, he has shown an appalling lack of understanding just how seriously the union takes its mission. He has shown a profound ineptitude in rallying owners to understand that they are in a business that prints money every year, that is being asked to take a haircut this one year which will hurt but be plenty offset by the fact that many of them have already gotten close to 1,000 percent returns on their original investments.<\/p>\n

But his worst calamity has come in the last week. Then, he guaranteed a season with 100 percent certainty. Now he says he\u2019s not so sure. He is worried that if he enacts a season \u2014 which is his right \u2014 the players will file a grievance. That\u2019s his issue now? Did it just occur to him? At best that\u2019s malpractice. At worst it\u2019s sheer incompetence. The job started out too big for him and the last few weeks it has fit him more and more like David Byrne\u2019s old white sports jacket.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, his sport burns, its future withers on the vine, fans who endured the last work stoppage 25 years ago are prepared to see two or three years of no baseball, and good luck ever getting the old-timers back, let alone the millennials. Many will blame greedy players and, sure, that is their right, and the players are no virginal victims here.<\/p>\n

But the real victim is baseball itself, which entrusted its future in the hands of Rob Manfred who was supposed to be a master of future thinking and has, instead become a magician: Look closely and watch as a whole sport disappears.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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