Posted on 08/14/2014 4:04:40 PM PDT by EveningStar
Rob Manfred was elected baseball's 10th commissioner Thursday and will succeed Bud Selig in January.
A labor lawyer who has worked for Major League Baseball since 1998, Manfred beat out Boston Red Sox Chairman Tom Werner in the first contested vote for a new commissioner in 46 years. The third candidate, MLB Executive Vice President of Business Tim Brosnan, dropped out just before the start of voting.
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Was the smoke a color?
LOL!
Do you think “Money” by Pink Floyd will be his “walk-up” song rather than “Blinded by the Light” by Manfred Mann?
Well, the Pink Floyd song has the cash register sound right there, but it’s a tossup.
Do the right thing, Rob - move Houston back to the NL and Milwaukee back to the AL. History demands it.
Don’t forget about Pete Rose :)
Maybe biggest mess he is going to have to deal with in the short term is the dispute between the Nats and O’s with their MASN television deal setup. MLB is desperate to not have any money details come out in court, and Peter Angelos made his money by litigation.
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Naw, the location of other teams makes those moves work well.
However, if they did move Houston back to the NL then they go in the NL West not Central. Rather than moving Milwaukee I’d slide Colorado or Arizona into the AL West and move Oakland to the Austin San Antonio area That way the AL west would have less extreme time zone issues
The expected choice.
I won’t be sorry to see Selig go.
Pete can stay out.
When do the players and their union get to cast enough votes to balance the owners’ votes. After all, the office is Commissioner of Baseball and not just the Commissioner of Baseball Owners.
But Selig is not going in spirit. Mannfred is Selig. He will run MLB into the ground the same way as Selig. What MLB has done with this vote is insure that the league will be irrelevant thirty years from now, as the last baseball fan dies in his nursing home bed.
For the most part, baseball success favors money. The more money, the more success. In general, the smaller market teams have less money than the larger market teams. Baseball, however, is in the nation’s largest markets, so it’s not like there are a lot of other markets to go to, unless one wants to start including Tokyo, Seoul, etc.
One simple adjustment I’d like to see is that a team that has developed a player must receive a development payment from any team that contracts that player away from the developing team. That would be a one time event in that player’s career, but it would give the losing team some compensation for the loss of a player they have put a lot of money into. Compensation should be a reasonable payment that includes some percentage of salary costs, training costs, medical costs, facilities costs, and potential lost.
It would apply to any team losing a player they had developed, so it isn’t unequally a burden on moneyed teams that doesn’t apply to smaller market teams. However, the smaller market teams benefit from it more, because the loss of that money spent and potential lost unequally affects them. Some compensation only seems reasonable to me.
The players union should think hard about rejecting such an idea because in the long run the health of the league and the game is enhanced by fans in every city believing that there teams have a fighting chance to make it to the top.
Hopefully not. As Bill Veeck said, “Baseball must be a great game if the owners haven’t ruined it.” (And over the last 40 years, they’ve had the players helping them.)
Everyone knows that MASN stands for Mr. Angelos Screws the Nats.
I think he should reinstate Rose’s eligibility for the Hall of Fame.
I agree with you, but it will never happen.
If you were going to force an NL team into the AL, it should have been Arizona or Colorado, to give each league 4 Western teams.
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