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DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

DK's Daily Shot of Pirates: What's Rob Manfred really up to?

DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

DK Pittsburgh Sports

Hockey, Steelers, Penguins, Football, Nfl, Matt Williamson, Nhl, Pittsburgh, Mlb, Baseball, Dejan Kovacevic, Dk Pittsburgh Sports, Pittsburgh Penguin, Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Steelers, Sports, Pirates

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Rob Manfred spoke on Thursday about the ongoing negotiations between MLB and the players' union. Though he spoke, we're no closer to understanding the master plan for the owners throughout this process. Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's Daily Shots of Steelers, Penguins and Pirates -- three separate podcasts -- every weekday morning on the DK Pittsburgh Sports podcasting network, available on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/dkpghsports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:13.0

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0:17.0

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0:22.3

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0:28.1

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0:34.4

Rob Manfred spoke yesterday for the first time in a good while.

0:43.5

He said next to nothing, he pointed in next to no direction for what he hopes to achieve,

0:52.6

and he wouldn't even really give a signal as to whether

0:56.3

or not spring training's in danger. Good morning to you. Good Friday morning. I'm Dan Kovachvich

1:01.0

of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Pirates. It comes your way bright and early every

1:06.3

weekday if you're into football and or hockey. I not coincidentally also offer daily shots of Steelers and Penguins right where you found this.

1:18.9

Manfred had a press conference,

1:22.4

and in that press conference, he was asked several run-of-the-mill questions about the lack of negotiating so far.

1:33.2

How can the owners justify having a lockout in which they won't even conduct talks?

1:40.5

Manfred put his foot in his mouth on more than one occasion, one of which came to the

1:46.6

latter question in which he said, both sides have phones. You don't need to be snotty, dude,

1:53.5

you know? And I can't emphasize often enough that even though I am 100% in favor of a salary cap because of the competitive

2:08.1

balance and fairness that it can help to achieve, I am in no way, shape, or form in favor of this

2:16.1

commissioner or these owners. And yes, believe it or not,

2:19.7

that can be a distinctive thing. They're a turnoff, he's a turnoff, the amount of money that they're

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