WT Serious F Manfred?

[floplag]

Why isnt Trout more popular, its his own fault...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/why-isnt-mike-trout-more-popular-mlb-commissioner-says-star-must-make-decision-to-engage/ar-AAAdF89?li=BBnb7Kz

Cant wait till the Facking comissioners office pressures him to go somewhere else for his "brand"... 

[Dtwncbad]

Maybe the dumbest article I have ever read.  How about we all let Mike Trout be Mike Trout, and not some inauthentic, contrived marketing piece that acts like someone he is not just for money?

[UndertheHalo]

I think this kind of shit will make Trout think long and hard before leaving the Angels.  He’s in huge market and can have as much exposure as he wants.  The Angels don’t pressure him.  It’s a good look for us as far as Trout probably sees.  IMO.  

[Taylor]

What a stupid, passive-agressive thing for the commissioner to say. Instead of being classy, he got defensive and threw Trout under the bus. What a tool.

He should have just said something like, "Mike Trout is a generational player, and we're so lucky to have him. I have no doubt that his popularity and legacy will continue to soar throughout his career."

[Blarg]

Taylor for Commissioner. 

[Stradling]

I read that article and I am incapable of being irate about this.  My guess is he is absolutely right about Trout.  We have said on here many of times he is an awful interview, he is a boring dude, who happens to be the best in the world at his craft.  That doesn’t make him marketable.  Sometimes you have to be willing to push yourself in order to improve in things like marketability.  

[Blarg]

As the commissioner of baseball this is not a conversation he should have in the press. 

[Stradling]

2 minutes ago, Blarg said:

As the commissioner of baseball this is not a conversation he should have in the press. 

He was asked a question, he answered.  It’s dumb to be bothered by it.   Yes Taylor’s answer was your normal answer but it’s not like Manfred was wrong. 

[Second Base]

As the commissioner of baseball, he should mind his own freakin' business.  Mike Trout isn't obligated to spend his free time sponsoring products.  And that's part of the reason why he's probably the most respected player on the field.  He's the best in his craft and he'd rather just play the game.

If you want theatrics, go with Baez or Harper.  

Let Mike Trout go hunting and fishing in the offseason and shut your stupid face Manfred.

[Dtwncbad]

38 minutes ago, Stradling said:

I read that article and I am incapable of being irate about this.  My guess is he is absolutely right about Trout.  We have said on here many of times he is an awful interview, he is a boring dude, who happens to be the best in the world at his craft.  That doesn’t make him marketable.  Sometimes you have to be willing to push yourself in order to improve in things like marketability.  

Why?  Maybe he is exactly as "marketable" as he wants to be.

[krAbs]

Mike Trout isn't more popular because Mike Trout does not want to be marketed. In other breaking news, water remains wet!

[ScottT]

Manfred was on the Dan Patrick Show this morning and said similar things. Made sense to me.  No reason to be outraged.

[Stradling]

6 minutes ago, Dtwncbad said:

Why?  Maybe he is exactly as "marketable" as he wants to be.

I don’t disagree at all.  

[arch stanton]

He markets himself by smacking the shit out of baseballs. What else should he do.

[AngelsLakersFan]

When you are already on television every night and make over $30 million per year, I can't blame someone for not wanting to be 'marketed' even more.

[floplag]

i think some of you are missing the point.
What he wants isnt the issue, the league wants to market him, they are putting pressure on him to market himself for the good of the game.
They have made a clear obvious concerted effort to make an issue of this, in the media, at this time, it isnt coincidence 
 

[Stradling]

Was he asked the question?  Or did he bring up Trout?  If he was asked, “Why don’t we see the stars of baseball, like Mike Trout, marketed like other stars of other sports” then I have no problem with him saying, “we’d love to market him, but he needs to want to be marketed”. 

[gurn67]

Mike Trouts's Q rating is supposedly the same as Kenneth Faried's. Every American friend of mine who's a sports fan knows who Mike Trout is, no matter what part of the country they live in. I honestly doubt if any of my friends know who Kenneth Faried is.

[Stradling]

I don’t know who he is.  

[floplag]

3 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Was he asked the question?  Or did he bring up Trout?  If he was asked, “Why don’t we see the stars of baseball, like Mike Trout, marketed like other stars of other sports” then I have no problem with him saying, “we’d love to market him, but he needs to want to be marketed”. 

as if that "spontaneous question" couldnt have been planned?  it seems a bit to convenient and random to have been anything but as  far as im concerned and either way he should have handled it very different, unless he was intending to make a point .

[Stradling]

12 minutes ago, floplag said:

as if that "spontaneous question" couldnt have been planned?  it seems a bit to convenient and random to have been anything but as  far as im concerned and either way he should have handled it very different, unless he was intending to make a point .

Except for the single fact that baseball is constantly being ripped on for not marketing their players.  ESPN recently had too 100 Athletes in the World.  There were 3 cricket players and zero baseball players.  

This would have been more of a question to question why MLB doesn’t market their players. They were being critical of Manfred and he answered, nothing wrong with the answer.  

[Tank]

1 hour ago, Blarg said:

Taylor for Commissioner. 

Taylor-Pence 2020

[Tank]

meanwhile, trout is mic'd up and had a running conversation with joe buck through the entire bottom of the seance inning.

[Tank]

fox also had trout do a weather report for them.

[Troll Daddy]

What’s all the fuss about ... we all know Mike likes to be on low. Just a kid who loves to play and stay out of the limelight. 

Nothing to see here