Baseball Spring Training? MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, CBA & Season status

MLB Commissioner, Rob Manfred holds press conference at quarterly Owners meeting in Orlando

• CBA discussions in February are like Ash Wednesday with solemn thoughts & a time of denial.
• RSN - Baseball Regional Sports Networks & Streaming, Bally,  YES networks
• MLB Owners working on Diversity - compared with NFL issues with Brian Flores &  Lovey Smith
• CBA current history & lockout dates
• MLB says it is important to get the game on the field ASAP
• Once again MLB holds their agreement to the DH as some big move
• Clubs will not move on MLBPA proposal with changes to comepetitive balance
• It would be like making Billionaires take a Pay Cut - Sympathy & Flowers please
• Status of Spring Training -  "No Change"
• Manfred is an Opening Day Optimist and believes that they will have an agreement to play their regular schedule
• Commissioner states - I see missing games as a disastrous outcome for this industry 
• What about those Tampa Bay Rays - can they sustain a team in current environment
• MLB thinks Tampa Bay region is a Major League Market
• Is owning a baseball team a good investment? - Take a look at the Atlanta Braves stock reports
• Steve Cohen, investment professional bought the Mets - something must look good
• Manfred not interested in social media
• Max Scherzer & Marcus Stroman share their thoughts
• NCAA CWS Softball Opening Day was February 10th 
• FSU & Oklahoma in the CWS World Series
• Minor League Baseball Opening Day scheduled for April 8
• MiLB AAA teams added 6 games to their season

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