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MLB Commissioner Has Five Stadium Situations To Resolve [Video]

MLB Commissioner Rod Manfred

Funding issues in Las Vegas and St. Petersburg are not the only stadium problems facing MLB.

The holidays are over and it is the first business week of 2025 and Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is facing the same problems at the beginning of 2025 that he faced throughout 2024. The financial situations in terms of funding new stadiums in Las Vegas and in St. Petersburg did not change over the holidays. There are no concrete money plans from either Athletics’ owner John Fisher or the Tampa Bay Rays’ ownership to finance those owners’ portion of the stadium budgets in Las Vegas or St. Petersburg. But those are only two of Manfred’s stadium concerns as there are situations in Chicago, Kansas City and Phoenix that need to be resolved. One item off the table for Manfred is a stadium issue in Milwaukee that has been resolved.

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New Year's Resolution Bootstrap a Startup with a Paycheck and 1Mby1M [Video]

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