Looking for a leader to bring our country home

Me and I at the red white end of the glory turns to stone

Looking for somebody, coming up to take it all

Clean up the corruption

And make the country strong

Good morning and welcome to episode 515 of Effectively Wild

The Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus presented by the

BaseballReference.com Play Index

I am Ben Lindbergh, a writer for Grantland.com

joined as always by Sam Miller of Baseball Prospectus

Today we are also joined by I think one of our most highly esteemed writers and reporters

Jeff Passen, the baseball columnist for Yahoo Sports

And we are going to talk about the big news from yesterday

Still the big news today that there has been a new commissioner elected in baseball

And that is Rob Manfred. Now the record will show officially that he was elected unanimously in a vote by the owners yesterday

That of course doesn't tell the whole story

The initial vote was 2010 in favor of Manfred. He needed 23 votes to pass

There were several rounds of voting. So there was some pushback, there was some resistance

And we wanted to ask Jeff a bit about that and about the issues facing Manfred

So tell us, was there ever really a serious threat that Manfred would not be the guy?

Or was this just a few recalcitrant owners kicking their feet and stamping their feet and having to be dragged into this

But ultimately Manfred was always going to be elected one way or another

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