Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday that the television rights dispute between the Orioles and Washington Nationals won't be settled until after a judge hands down a decision in the lawsuit filed in New York by the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network.
Manfred, who had attempted to mediate the dispute between the two ownership groups, toured the site of the Cal Ripken World Series and met with reporters at the Marriott Courtyard Hotel that borders the playing fields.
Sitting beside Cal Ripken, he took questions on a variety of issues, including Major League Baseball's commitment to promoting youth baseball, the possibility or moving back the midseason trade deadline and the timetable — or lack of one — for deciding which city will host the 2019 All-Star Game.