Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred is a man who is in over his head.
It doesn’t take a genius to see that.
The baseball boss has completely botched this Houston Astros cheating scandal, punishing just the team’s GM and manager, who were then both fired by the team, and letting the players who cheated off the hook with no punishments.
Since then, Manfred has continued to get crushed for not punishing the players who cheated their way to a World Series title in 2017.
We’ve heard from the usually bland Mike Trout, Yankees slugger Aaron Judge, and even from LeBron James, who plays basketball but is still livid at MLB.
Manfred hasn’t done himself any favors, of course. Just the other day he referred to the World Series trophy just “piece of metal” and didn’t see a point in trying to get it back from the Astros.
Yeah, calling the historic trophy a “piece of metal” didn’t go over well at all with players at all. How could it? Dodgers star Justin Turner ripped Manfred over it, saying the commish has probably never won anything in his life.
Well, on Tuesday afternoon Manfred held another press conference and it showed once again that this guy needs to be out of a job.
Because it was laughable.
He did apologize to the World Series trophy, calling what he said a “mistake.”
Duh.
Watch this apology and tell me this is someone who should be in charge of a major sport:
Manfred said:
“In an effort to make a rhetorical point I referred to the World Series trophy in a disrespectful way… It was a mistake to say what I said.”
Manfred also had this wild explanation about the Astros cheating in the postseason that should only infuriate fans even more:
He also blamed “today’s society” for the amount of outcry that MLB has faced over this issue.
For real:
Manfred was rightly ripped even more as this situation continues to get out of control:
