Rob Manfred’s 180 on the baseball season

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.4 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Just a week after he said there will be a baseball season, the commissioner of the MLB Rob Manfred announced in an interview that he is not confident that there will be a season. Host Chuck Garfien is joined by Ryan McGuffey and Vinnie Duber as they discuss why the big change in direction from Manfred, why can't the players and the league come to an agreement, and how this can possibly ruin baseball.(2:28) - Rob Manfred does a 180 on the MLB season(7:40) - Are the players right on this one?(15:36) - Are the MLB owners being tone deaf?(20:50) - If there is no baseball, how will it impact young fans?(22:52) - How Rob Manfred became MLB Commissioner(30:16) - Confidence level that there will be a season

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0:00.0	Hey everyone's Chuck Arfine.
0:08.2	This is the White Sox Talk podcast brought to you, as always, by WinTrust.
0:14.1	So a week ago, Commissioner Rob Manfred said he was 100% confident there would be a baseball season in 2020.
0:22.8	Now he's saying he's not confident there's going to be a season at all.
0:28.4	Players aren't happy. They're firing back all over social media.
0:32.3	The league and the players union are talking at each other via scathing press releases. What is going on here? How is this
0:41.2	going to be resolved? Will there be baseball in 2020? Am I furious? You could say that. We've got
0:49.7	talking. We've got venting to do on the White Sox Talk podcast, trying to make sense of really the senseless.
0:57.4	Let's play some freaking baseball.
1:00.3	And thanks for listening to the podcast.
1:02.8	Here we go.
1:03.5	White Sox.
1:04.5	White Sox.
1:05.4	Go, go.
1:06.3	White Sox.
1:07.4	A ball hit deep way back.
1:09.4	Deep to the crowd.
1:11.3	Holy cow!
1:12.9	Carlton Fess has put the White Sox ahead.
1:16.2	Jimenez leaves the ballpark.
1:19.1	You can't put it on the board.
1:21.9	Yes.
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