The commissioner and owners don’t exactly boast a Machiavellian degree of cunning.
Manfred is an arsonist who wants you to think he is a firefighter. Even if you take him at his word that the lockout was necessary , his actions since imposing it have been farcical. Manfred’s side did not issue a collective bargaining proposal to the MLB Players Association for 43 whole days after the Commissioner of Baseball said in his first letter that the lockout was meant to “jumpstart” things. The stallingPlayers don’t get paid in the offseason.
the regular cash flows ownership can generate. Manfred could only say it because he thought his target audience, the baseball-loving public, would buy it.Such obfuscation is part of the plan. Manfred and the owners did not show up to this self-created crisis without a strategy. The commissioner has spent almost his whole professional life as a management-side labor lawyer, helping companies fight unions.
Again, Manfred seems to either not grasp or not mind that the league office and owners—the parties to whom he has given his career—are not the same as “baseball.” But so much of his track record says that the sport’s well-being is not a concern to its commissioner. Does baseball’s ultimate prize mean a lot to him? Apparently not. He called the World Series trophy “a piece of metal” in explaining why he wouldn’t take it away from the cheating Houston Astros.
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