Rob Manfred Air-Practicing His Swing May Set The Game Back A Decade

“Rob Manfred practices his golf stroke as his league melts down Tuesday. (Lynne Sladky/AP)”

While getting harshly criticized—okay, eviscerated on national TV and more thoughtfully in print—for his handling of labor talks, the owners, the Cheating Astros and pretty much everything else under his supervision, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred apparently wanted to drag golf down, too.

Committing the golf equivalent of playing an air guitar on karaoke Tuesday’s, the Commish used his lockout negotiating break to practice his golf swing without a club. Normally he would have been playing the Seminole Pro-Member. Here’s guessing a good time was still had by all.

And now, thanks to AP’s Lynne Sladky capturing the always sad sight of a golfer hopelessly practicing without a club, our sport has been unfairly dragged into baseball’s latest mess.