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Manfred Mann

Post by metirish » Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:52 pm

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday he’ll be done in the role in January 2029.

“You can only have so much fun in one lifetime,” Manfred said. “I have been open with them (the owners) about the fact that this is going to be my last term.”

Manfred has served in the position since succeeding Bud Selig as commissioner in January 2015.

This will be updated.


Highs ?
Lows?
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Re: Manfred Mann

Post by Lefty Specialist » Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:15 pm

Lows? Start with the NL DH and go from there.
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Post by bmfc1 » Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:46 pm

The lockout.
The WBC (many like it but... Diaz).
The extra innings rule.
Failure to penalize the players involved in the Astros' scandal (only Beltran was hurt as he had retired).
The WS Trophy "is just a piece of metal".
"What streaming service is today's game on?"
These uniforms.
The ASG uniforms.
Enabling the A's ownership to attempt to leave Oakland without a firm deal in place in Las Vegas (related: his snide comment on the night the fans protested: "almost an average Major League Baseball crowd"

An absolute POS Commissioner. Not as bad as Selig who turned away from steroid use in the name of profits but still awful.
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Post by Edgy MD » Thu Feb 15, 2024 7:24 pm

I thought this was going to be about the terrible extra-inning rule ending.

I wish a story about my "leaving," was about my staying until 2029.
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Re: Manfred Mann

Post by Cowtipper » Thu Feb 15, 2024 7:27 pm

Making betting a totally okay thing. Doesn't baseball have a nasty history of scandals involving betting and gambling?
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Post by Edgy MD » Thu Feb 15, 2024 7:45 pm

Yeah, getting deep in bed with gambling and bitcoin, turning them into revenue streams that would be intensely painful to extract from, was some fast and loose Trump-era bullshit.

Uniform ads too. How do you stop that sort of creep?
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Re: Manfred Mann

Post by kcmets » Thu Feb 15, 2024 7:47 pm

metirish wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:52 pmMLB commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday he’ll be done in the role in January 2029.
“Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.” -- Al Swearengen
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Re: Manfred Mann

Post by batmagadanleadoff » Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:16 pm

All your gripes are spot on. But the baseball commish is the MLB owners' water boy, really. None of that dreadful stuff would've happened without at least, the owners' consent, if not their outright insistence. In other words, it was all inevitable and would've happened even if youse were the commissioners of baseball.
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Post by G-Fafif » Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:58 pm

NBC set a five-year exit date for Jay Leno to clear space for Conan O’Brien. That proved bumpy.
Hope for the best. Expect the Mets.
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Post by bmfc1 » Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:25 am

G-Fafif wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:58 pm NBC set a five-year exit date for Jay Leno to clear space for Conan O’Brien. That proved bumpy.
MLB will give Manfred the 11:30 spot and move the new Commissioner back to midnight.
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Post by MFS62 » Fri Feb 16, 2024 11:21 am

You never know what's going to happen in five years.
Ask Alexey Navalny.
Oh, wait.

Later
I blame Susan Collins
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Post by G-Fafif » Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:55 pm

bmfc1 wrote: Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:25 am
G-Fafif wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:58 pm NBC set a five-year exit date for Jay Leno to clear space for Conan O’Brien. That proved bumpy.
MLB will give Manfred the 11:30 spot and move the new Commissioner back to midnight.
Leno liked comedy more than Manfred likes baseball.

Hope for the best. Expect the Mets.
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Re: Manfred Mann

Post by Edgy MD » Fri Feb 16, 2024 11:16 pm

Sheesh, way to be a dick.

Rob Manfred also decreed that defensive players standing where they think the ball would be hit was somehow unsporting.
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Post by bmfc1 » Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:09 am

Manfred in 1958: "Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants fans have nothing to be upset about because it's not like there is not an available option. The Yankees obviously still play there. Most important, there's a fan opportunity there that's not so far away."
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Re: Manfred Mann

Post by Centerfield » Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:16 pm

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:16 pm All your gripes are spot on. But the baseball commish is the MLB owners' water boy, really. None of that dreadful stuff would've happened without at least, the owners' consent, if not their outright insistence. In other words, it was all inevitable and would've happened even if youse were the commissioners of baseball.

I mostly agree with this. And when Manfred moves on his replacement will also suck.

But like his comment about A’s fans from the other day, I feel like Mandred was particularly punchable. Even if he was doing punchable things already.
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