One Owner’s Outsized Role In The MLB Lockout
The Lead
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3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
This week, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred announced that for the first time since 1994, the league is canceling games due to a work stoppage. Today, we’re joined by The Athletic’s Nick Groke — who covers the Colorado Rockies — to look at why that team’s owner, Dick Monfort, has emerged as a key figure in the failed negotiations. And, with both sides currently at an impasse, exactly how long could this lockout last?
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| 0:32.5 | Good afternoon, everyone. |
| 0:33.9 | I had hoped against hope that I would not have to have this particular press conference |
| 0:41.6 | in more time. |
| 0:42.6 | That was MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred earlier this week announcing that for the first time |
| 0:47.7 | since 1994, the league is putting a big red line through games on the schedule because |
| 0:53.6 | of a work stoppage. |
| 0:55.1 | The calendar dictates that we're not going to be able to play the first two series of |
| 1:00.4 | the regular season, and those games are officially canceled. |
| 1:05.0 | We're prepared to continue negotiations. |
| 1:07.8 | We've been informed that the MLBPA is headed back to New York. |
| 1:11.5 | Today, we're joined by the Athletics Nick Groke who covers the Colorado Rockies to tell |
| 1:16.3 | us why beyond Rob Manfred, it's the Rockies owner, Dick Monford, who has emerged as a key |
| 1:22.4 | figure in the failed negotiations. |
| 1:25.5 | And with both sides at an impasse, how much more of the season are we about to lose? |
| 1:31.2 | From Wondering in the Athletic, I'm Tiffany Oshinsky, it's Friday, March 4th, and this is the |
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