“In terms of any delay in the process, that’s a mutual responsibility of the bargaining parties. Phones work two ways.”
This was MLB commissioner Rob Manfred discussing the pace of labor negotiations during his press conference Thursday. It was a perfect representation of the spirit of the session: a line that was technically true—or, at least, not explicitly untrue—while being wildly, eye-roll-inducingly disingenuous.
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