There are times when defending yourself based on principle makes sense. This is not even remotely one of them.
Mission accomplished Manfred, the media have gotten Luhnow run out of baseball and hired the known cheaters back. SMDH
The Steroids Jason Giambi, Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and many more players were on. The Yankees, Red Sox need to lose their Draft Picks. The GMs and Managers need to be banned from Baseball.
Not just Manfred, the MLBPA said "yall shut the **** up". So they did. If they ('they' being the entire League top-to-bottom) had just said: Let's get it all out, and get it all over with, and put some rules in to stop it (like they kind of pretended to do with steroids once they got caught redhanded etc...), nobody would be talking about this at all anymore. Manfred kinda makes me miss Bud Selig.
Incredible, isn't it? No way I saw that coming. Like if Ford had been so terrible ppl would've said 'yo I miss Dick Nixon.'
Don't be surprised. He is Selig's protégé. I can't wait to road trip to Milwaukee to piss on his grave when he dies.
Manfred is a horrible commissioner. Protecting the other teams like that. Also a lot of his rule changes have sucked, too.