MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has long been terrible at his job, and that dates back to well before the coronavirus shut down the sports world back in March.
Remember when he called the World Series trophy just “a piece of metal” back in February when talking about the cheating Houston Astros and their 2017 title? That seems like forever ago and that issue now seems so tame compared to what’s going on with the game now.
What’s going on now is that the Miami Marlins have had a coronavirus outbreak that includes up to 13 members of the franchise. Four players were pulled before Sundays’ game against the Phillies in Philadelphia because of positive tests. Manfred could have and should have stepped in and called that game off, which is something a more intelligent commissioner would have done (hello, Adam Silver). But no, that game went on which is completely ridiculous.
Well, tonight Manfred went on MLB Network and took some questions from Tom Verducci and basically showed the world he has no clue on how to keep players safe.
He even said the Marlins could be back and playing on Wednesday depending how tests go.
For real.
Here’s that part of the interview:
And here’s the entire interview in which he spells out that MLB’s “protocols are adequate to keep players safe,” which sure doesn’t seem to be the case:
This doesn’t feel like it’s going to go well for baseball and if it doesn’t Rob Manfred should get the blame and should lose his job.
Now that would be a good day for baseball.
