{"id":1361083,"date":"2022-03-06T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T16:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1361083"},"modified":"2022-03-06T11:54:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T16:54:47","slug":"kalamazoo-team-bans-mlb-commish-rob-manfred-for-life-over-crimes-against-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kalamazoo-team-bans-mlb-commish-rob-manfred-for-life-over-crimes-against-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalamazoo Team Bans MLB Commish Rob Manfred for Life over &#039;Crimes Against Baseball&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkalamazoo-team-bans-mlb-commish-rob-manfred-for-life-over-crimes-against-baseball%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1361083&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Bob-Levey_Getty-Images-5-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Kalamazoo Growlers announced that Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has been banned for life for \u201ccrimes against baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In its Friday open letter posted to Twitter, the team insisted that Manfred has \u201cshown a commitment\u201d to take the fun out of baseball.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAmid the MLB lockout, Manfred and the MLB team owners have shown only an interest in money and not providing baseball for their players and fans. They are trying to ruin baseball simply for their financial gain,\u201d the team\u2019s statement continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Growlers stand strong in their belief that fun is the key to baseball,\u201d the team wrote. \u201cRob Manfred stands in direct opposition to these beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Growlers believe a ban of that magnitude is not enough for his crimes against baseball,\u201d the statement reads. \u201cThe Growlers determined that a lifetime ban was the correct punishment for his transgressions.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RELEASE: MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has been given a lifetime ban from Growlers games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Growlers stand strong in their belief that fun is the key to baseball. Rob Manfred stands in direct opposition to these beliefs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Official Statement: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FP7dYQk7Ws\">pic.twitter.com\/FP7dYQk7Ws<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kalamazoo Growlers (@kzoogrowlers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kzoogrowlers\/status\/1499776787391340549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Growlers were not the first team to slap Manfred with a ban.<\/p>\n<p>The Bismarck Larks also banned Manfred with a letter insisting that \u201cIt is clear that Manfred hates baseball and hates FUN.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Bismarck Larks have &#8220;banned&#8221; MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred \ud83d\udcc4<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is clear that Manfred hates baseball and hates FUN&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wNozo6fQ3N\">pic.twitter.com\/wNozo6fQ3N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Front Office Sports (@FOS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOS\/status\/1499769972175872001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe officially announce that we are banning Manfred from Larks games until the lockout is resolved,\u201d the team exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kalamazoo Growlers announced that Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has been banned for life for \u201ccrimes against baseball.\u201d In its Friday open letter posted to Twitter, the team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}