FanGraphs | Michael Baumann: You know, after the lockout, I was hoping that we were going to have a moratorium on Rob Manfred taking up headlines, but well, here we are again. While speaking to the media at the owners’ meetings this week, the head lackey of MLB’s money hoarders put his foot in his mouth on a number of issues. This time around, he mostly word vomited over the Oakland Athletics stadium/relocation issue, insulting the fanbase’s reverse-boycott, gaslighting the fans and the city of Oakland and blaming them for ownership’s decision to move the franchise to Las Vegas, and criticized the legitimacy of academics who have shown conclusively in studies that span decades that public funding of sports stadiums do not generate economic growth, saying that “academics can say whatever they want.
Around the Empire: Yankees news - 6/17/23
