Manfred: "This needs to be over" but let's not talk with the MLBPA today

Major League Baseball commissioner, Rob Manfred, has made himself an enemy of the public over the past few weeks after he said that he is "not confident" just five days after he said there was "100%" going to be a season.

Well, he hasn't helped his cause over the past couple of days. After MLBPA chief Tony Clark sent over their 70-game proposal that included full pro-rated salaries, Manfred told reporters that "this needs to be over"--referring to the league's drawn out soap opera with the Players Union.

So it doesn't take a rocket scientist to think that the league would give the Players Association a new offer today so we can start getting closer to an agreement.

Nope. Not in the mind of Rob Manfred. USA Today's Bob Nightengale tweeted on Friday morning that there would be "no scheduled labor talks today" between the two sides. So, while the two sides are just ten games apart, the commissioner is in no rush to get baseball back, and it just blows my mind.

Reporters have said over the past couple of days that Manfred wants the owners and the players to come to an agreement with each other instead of him mandating a short season on the players, but yet Manfred doesn't want to talk with Tony Clark today.

Wouldn't he want the league to have an agreement in place before the weekend so they can start hammering out the health and safety protocols--especially after the Phillies and Blue Jays had corona virus cases in their minor league camps today?

No, he wants to drag this process out as long as he can so the owners don't have to give the players more games and therefore give up more money.

It's just another day where the players and owners are arguing (or not arguing) over money in the middle of a pandemic when millions of people have lost their jobs.