John Middleton is one of MLB’s Biggest Hypocrites

John Middleton is one of MLB’s Biggest Hypocrites

Phillies owner John Middleton is a hypocrite. He’s been receiving praise for saying he is responsible to the fans and city to build a consistent championship-caliber team.

It’s why I keep telling everybody, it may be a privately-held business that we own, but it’s not a private organization,” Middleton said to MLB.com. “It’s a very public organization. It is a stewardship. We have an obligation. We are accountable to the fans and to the city. If you don’t approach it that way, you shouldn’t be an owner, in my opinion.”

I agree. Owners should be held responsible for building a winning team, and other owners should hold each other accountable. Even more so if some owners are being cheap.

So if that’s what Middleton believes in, why didn’t he hold A’s owner John Fisher accountable for not fielding a winning team? Instead, he was an enabler.

As the A’s attempt to relocate to Las Vegas, the other 29 MLB owners allowed Fisher’s tomfoolery to happen. Middleton, alongside Royals owner John Sherman and Brewers owner Mark Attanasio, made up MLB’s relocation committee that oversaw the A’s proposal to relocate.

The three of them listened to the A’s proposal for how a move to Las Vegas would work. It included proposals for TV deals, territory rights, and whether the team will be profitable. They then made a recommendation to MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, who then passed that to the other owners.

Owners got together at the owners’ meetings in November. All 30 owners voted unanimously to approve the A’s relocation.

If Middleton really feels the way he does, why did he vote yes? Why did he recommend approval while on the relocation committee? It’s the biggest load of B.S. I’ve heard from an owner since Fisher said “It’s been a lot worse for me than it has for you.“

Middleton is just as bad as Fisher and president Dave Kaval. He’s just as bad as Manfred and every other owner that voted yes. What about the owners of the White Sox? The Marlins? It’s not just the A’s. Don’t be fooled, just because he spent money on his team doesn’t mean he cares about the rest of the league.

If Middleton meant what he said, he’d certainly have the balls to say no to an absolutely horrendous and incomplete relocation plan. He could start a movement among the owners to vote Fisher out as the A’s owner. But he won’t because he’s just as crooked as the rest of them.

As long as the Phillies remain a high budget team, Middleton won’t care about the cheap owners pocketing money and ruining the league.

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