Would You Trade this MLB Season If It Meant Being Done With Rob Manfred?

It's rough days for baseball fans. Rob Manfred literally made a personal guarantee, twice, that there would 100% be a baseball season. Then he walked it back less than a week later and said he was no longer confident there would be a season at all. All the while, he drips with disdain for the audience and the players.

I do get that the players have been intransigent in these negotiations, refusing to back off their demand of full prorated pay to the extent that owners would ostensibly lose money with each additional game played. The players got their butts handed to them in the 2016 CBA, they didn't share proportionally in staggering recent growth in revenue and franchise valuations, and they're now out for blood.

But Manfred is the one going around making public guarantees and walking them back five minutes later. If he fails to fulfill his promise, this sequence should be written about every time he is quoted from now until after he dies.

Just as a Brewers fan, the things these money squabbles are depriving me of -- Christian Yelich's gorgeous swing, listening to the ageless Bob Uecker on the porch while I sip a High Life -- are driving me absolutely crazy. We should be salivating right now for an all you can eat baseball buffet on July 4th. Instead we're getting starved. Meanwhile, there's zero evidence that Rob Manfred, the person who should care about this the most, has any concern.

And by the way, there's a very real possibility we're going to go through all this AGAIN in 15 months when the CBA expires after the 2021 season. Ugh.

So I present this question to fellow baseball fans: Would you trade away this season if it meant that Manfred wouldn't be around to mess up future ones?

The tricky part here is that he's just doing the owners' bidding, and even if they feel the need to sacrifice him after this debacle they'll just replace him with someone else cut out for that role. Nonetheless, I still would have to think long and hard about the trade.