After you’ve punched your best customer in the head, what’s the best way to apologize? 

That’s right, next kick him in the groin. It’s the Rob Manfred/MLB business model. 

Consider the cheesy, small-minded men and women who represent the will of Manfred’s detached, negligent, tenure as MLB’s chief financial officer, poorly posed as was Bud Selig before him, as its greater-good commissioner. 

Last week’s Opening Day — the American one, as Manfred again had allowed Japan to have the official honors a full week earlier in another new Shohei-Us-The-Money National Pastime tradition — was on a Thursday, March 27. That was another fan-unfriendly, bottom line “innovation” by two cold-weather weeks now needed to play 162 games without scheduled (and beloved) doubleheaders.