Rob Manfred offers little insight, shows contempt for reporters in press conference

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Commissioner Rob Manfred spoke at a press conference, addressing the Astros cheating scandal and other topics on Sunday evening. To start, the press conference was not broadcast officially on MLB's own TV channel (it aired the 1988 movie Bull Durham instead), nor could any mention to it or link to the live stream be found anywhere on MLB.com. Last month, Jared Diamond of the Wall Street Journal broke a story about the Astros' “dark arts” and “Codebreaker” operation, based on a letter Manfred sent to then-GM Jeff Luhnow.

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