MLB Commissioner
Rob Manfred is going through his “woe is us, what can we do about it?”
diversity dance, telling reporters baseball is really going to get serious
about diversity. Yeah, right. And I am the walrus.
Baseball
organizations take their cue from the top, aka, ownership. If memory serves, no MLB teams have sizable,
let alone controlling, minority investors outside of the Los Angeles Angels,
owned by Arte Moreno. As ownership goes,
so the front office tends to go. White
on white, if you will, with a few exceptions.
How to change
this? The surest way is through minority
ownership of teams. If there’s not
enough minority wealth around to purchase a team, that’s a discussion for
another day. Otherwise, nothing short of
massive boycotts and demonstrations is going to change things.
In the meantime,
maybe the commissioner could do something about the status of women in the
game.
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