You must have seen the news: Rob Manfred, Commissioner of Baseball – and, for many of us, the steward of a game he does not really think about care or care – going to serve another period. Come 2029, he is out of here.
So when is the parade?
In fairness, the results of the commission’s commission are mixed. A year ago, the adjustment of the rules resulted in a sharp speed and more recreational game in its credit column. The pitch clock and anti-shift rules changed the game-although I am still waiting to make an illegal defense call for an umpire-and I am confident that it’s the only time as long as the automatic ball-stroke (ABS) system (ie,, bots calling pitch) changes the home-plate umpire in the same way.
Meanwhile, the Replay System has increased the possibilities that calls (out of ball-stroke decisions) are correct, and thus decreased the possibilities that managers make their own glasses in discussion with the UMP. (If you remember those arguments, then Earl Weaver and Tom Losorda clips on YouTube.)
But as a commissioner, there are many negatives in his nine years. Where to start?
For example, lockout from December 2021 via March 2022, it did not meet what the management wanted. This stopped the offsen business, and showed a new generation of players why the Players Association is the strongest in professional sports, and why the owners are not their friends. The agreement that comes out of that lockout lasts until 2026, so Manfred – which originally came on the radar of MLB as a Labor Advocate in 1987 – would have another opportunity to play a deal or play a deal before exiting the stage after 2028 season.
And Houston Astros has a blot on the resume of the inactivity manfred related to Astros’s 2017 fraud scam. He suspended manager AJ Hinch and General Manager Jeff Luhono, but the major players were unpublished, giving them immunity. More severe, the owner gym crane was allowed to act in such a way that he was not responsible for what he happened on his watch.
Oh, and Manfred’s reference to the world series trophy as a “metal pieces”, to explain why the championship cannot be evacuated, will remain infamous for a long time after Manfred’s apology. The best response was to Justin Turner: “To devaluate for him that he told me yesterday how he is out of touch with players in this game. At this point, the only thing to devaluate that trophy is that it says ‘Commissioner’. ,
Recently, the position of Manfred is – inactive, originally – during an attempt to go to Las Vegas during the squirrel darby of A. And the talisman of this game is circus running around one of the most basic uniforms.
Under Manfred’s clock, the game has originally sold its soul to Nike, so we have “city connect” uniform and generic, boring all-star game outfits in place of a polymorphic of jersey and team colors, which helped to make the midsmor classic special. And now Nike has outsourced its construction of the game uniform for fundamentalists, and the reactions of the players congratulated them when they arrived in spring training this year, “
And before everyone realized that uniform pants had been seen through watching. We have asked for transparency, but it is ridiculous.
Is Manfrede the worst commissioner in North American professional sports? Probably not, as long as Don Garber Major League Soccer.
Garber sold His A season for the league soul+ $ 250 million for Apple TV – $ 8.6 million this year is going down to $ 8.33 million next year when San Diego enters the league. Some people may hail them as a visionary to guess how Sports TV can be engraved, but I believe that he was chasing money only at the cost of exposing his game to a large number of fans. He then blocked the League Cup tournament in the middle of the schedule with Leiga MX, grabbing a pure cash that disregards the health and safety of the players. Then He threatened to get his league teams out of the historic US Open Cup due to schedule overload, and whose fault was it?
If I had to rate the commissioners, it would have happened in this order: Adam Silver, NBA; Roger Goodll, NFL; Kathy Engelbert, WNBA; Gary Betman, NHL, Manfred and Garber.
But everyone had their “Ugh” moments, and perhaps we have been watching the commissioners and their jobs wrong for years. They work in the joy of the owners, so if you are looking for decisions based on the best interest of the game… Ok, like it or not, the best interest is that the owners (ie, the owners of the commissioners) say that it is.
This helps explain why the crane was not suspended in the Astro scam. The final baseball commissioner Fee Vincent was courageous to take a owner, who banned George Steinbrener for “Life” in 1990, a suspension that was canceled in 1993. The Vincent himself had gone in September 1992, forced to resign by a cable from the owners, who did not wish to choose a fight with the Sangh.
His replacement was Bud Celling, the owner of the Bruver, who presided over the first season in 89 years in 89 years after finishing the season in June 1994. Celling finally discovered how to get the Players Association and its Executive Director, Don Fehar, enough to avoid additional work stoppage – and to launch the World Baseball Classic.
And when he was never a dynamic commissioner, at least you could not say that Celling did not like baseball. Even he preferred baseball writers enough to go to the press box once. Do we really know how many times Manfred shows in a ballpark?
We can expect, firmly, that the next commissioner would actually be a baseball person. It is not necessary that late A. Bartlet should be a person like Jiamati, who honored the game with a poet’s soul, but whatever it is, should at least enjoy seeing the product and not hesitate to show it, okay?
And since we have five years to find this, I want your input. If you were a commissioner, what will be your top three priorities? The best reactions will be printed in an upcoming column.
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