Over the last week, baseball fans have been whipsawed between Commissioner Rob Manfred’s “100 percent” chance baseball would be played this year to his statement that he was “not confident” that would happen. The latter statement was made just Monday.
Here’s something Manfred forgets, I think, per Ken Rosenthal at The Athletic:
Baseball is a business, we all know that. But it is a business that former commissioner Bud Selig describes as a social institution with social responsibilities, a business that holds an antitrust exemption, distinguishing it from every other professional sports league.