Last night ESPN aired a special titled “The Return of Sports” where six of the seven commissioners of major sports in the United States in America explained how they planned to return in 2020. The NBA, WNBA, NHL, NFL, MLS and NWSL all offered reasonable explanations of the risks they’d assessed, the changes they’d made due to the pandemic and the role they felt their sport could play in 2020.
Every sports commissioner was ready to go with a plan except one: MLB’s Rob Manfred. It was infuriating to watch Manfred lead off the show explaining he couldn’t confirm there would be a season despite the fact that he publicly confirmed a season a week earlier during the draft.