If you’ve been following the Major League Baseball lockout, you’ve no doubt seen the defining photo of the fiasco.
There was Rob Manfred, caught on camera practicing his golf swing at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Fla., last Tuesday. The MLB commissioner fiddled while Rome burned.
Manfred swinging a make-believe golf club during a lull in the negotiations should not be a big deal. Except that it is. Because it was just another in a series of PR gaffes by Manfred and his MLB soldiers.
Even if you watched Manfred’s news conference later that day, you might not have picked up on a telling moment.