There’s a non-stop onslaught of press interviews that takes place throughout the duration of the MLB All-Star Game. Whether it’s the collected masses descending on Manny Machado demanding he speculate where he’ll be traded, or the generally banal series of questions about how it feels to make the All-Star team, it seems someone always has a microphone in their face.
On Tuesday, ahead of the big game itself, one of the men who found himself at the center of the media’s attention was baseball commissioner Rob Manfred. While most of his points seemed to be directly intended to counter things said my MLBPA president Tony Clark — who was interviewed right before — some of what he said stood on its own.