Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred made "shocking statements" that are "highly prejudicial" regarding the television rights fee dispute between the Orioles and Washington Nationals, lawyers for the Orioles-controlled network said today.
"It is beyond any reasonable dispute that Mr. Manfred's revelations have poisoned any notion that MLB can or would act in a fair and neutral manner," the attorneys for the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network said in a letter to New York Supreme Court Justice Lawrence K. Marks.
The letter -- in which the Orioles joined -- came in a case in which MASN and the club contend MLB did not act fairly in seeking to resolve the financial dispute between the neighboring clubs.