Tom Werner named a finalist for MLB Commissioner

[soxhop411]

Jon Heyman ‏@JonHeymanCBS  1m
Support vacillated betw 20, 21 and 22 votes for manfred. Brewers and rays eventually voted yes, and nats pushed it to 23.
https://twitter.com/JonHeymanCBS/status/500051519606358016
Nats caved
 

“@NYDNSportsITeam: Eight MLB teams backing Werner over Manfred for commissioner: Jays, Red Sox, White Sox, Nats, Angels, A's, Arizona and Reds”





https://twitter.com/NYDNSportsITeam/status/500018853959983106

 

[JimBoSox9]

Natstown Manfred!

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

So the Nats caved and everyone else followed suit?
 
How do they vote?  By going around the room and leaving the nay (Werner) votes for last?  How else could it suddenly have been a unanimous vote?

 

[JimD]

Have to figure that Reinsdorf is #1 on Manfred's shit list.  Hopefully Werner (and by extension anyone associated with the Boston Red Sox) isn't 1A now.

 

[JimBoSox9]

Have to figure that Reinsdorf is #1 on Manfred's shit list.  Hopefully Werner (and by extension anyone associated with the Boston Red Sox) isn't 1A now.

 
I doubt there will be any hard feelings.  Nothing's happened to make me less skeptical that Werner was anything but a symbolic candidate.  This was about concessions the next time they meet in Kansas City and open the books.  Tommy Boy was just someone to hold out there until Rud Manlig made a couple promises.

 

[bankshot1]

So the Nats caved and everyone else followed suit?
 
How do they vote?  By going around the room and leaving the nay (Werner) votes for last?  How else could it suddenly have been a unanimous vote?

Once he got the 23rd vote, there was probably a motion made to make it unanimous

 

[Harry Hooper]

Once he got the 23rd vote, there was probably a motion made to make it unanimous

 
 
Yeah, I think that's been done before in MLB and other leagues.

 

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Eric Fisher ‏@EricFisherSBJ  40s
Industry source re MLB meetings today: "Jerry got his ass handed to him."
https://twitter.com/EricFisherSBJ/status/500064092628197376

 

[Spelunker]

 
This is why I assumed that Brosnan dropping out would help Manfred, but obviously I underestimated Manfred's loathsomeness quotient.
 
Given that it only takes 8 votes to block a candidate, the one thing I'm almost certain of (assuming these reports are true) is that Werner will not be the next Commissioner.  If they continue to succeed in blocking Manfred, the owners will have to put up another candidate to end the impasse.
 
 

Isn't this how Warren Harding became president?

 

[Buzzkill Pauley]

Isn't this how Warren Harding became president?

 
Plus, it was agreed they didn't want expansion of the League.

 

[jose melendez]

I'm very much in the camp of maintaing labor peace being the single most important thing--if Manfred is better for that--which seems to be the case, then I'm happy.

 

[wutang112878]

I'm very much in the camp of maintaing labor peace being the single most important thing--if Manfred is better for that--which seems to be the case, then I'm happy.

 
I made the point earlier in this thread that attracting younger fans and getting the game to suit their preferences was critical, but you're right.  We take this for granted now but I forgot how much a labor stoppage hurt the game and you cant just go back to the 'lets have a draw like the HR chase again' well.