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In case you thought that Major League Baseball didn't
still kowtow to the Yankees—
think again. Commissioner
Rob Manfred (who we generally like) caved in to a "request" by
The Bronx Embalmers to move the start time for a game on July 8th at Toronto from 8PM to 1PM. Why? Because fragile little Yankees like
Aaron Judge and
Giancarlo Stanton have to play a double-header the next day in Baltimore.
Boo-hoo! Tough noogies—welcome to the realities of re-scheduling games after crappy Spring weather. The game was
originally scheduled for 1PM, but was moved last week after being chosen as a featured game on ESPN. Said Yankee manager
Aaron (F.) Boone,
"Just really grateful to him [Manfred] and to ESPN and to the Yankees and all the people involved that, I think, clearly, ended up doing the right thing here in considering the product and player safety and all those kinds of things." Give us a freaking break! There is
no way that MLB would bend to any similar wishes of—say—the Red Sox. We don't care about contrived Yankee inconveniences, and Manfred shouldn't either.
