Phillies’ Bryce Harper Cursed At Commissioner In Heated Clubhouse Meeting, Per Report

Philadelphia Phillies prima Bryce Harper dropped an f-bomb connected Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred successful a heated confrontation past week astir a imaginable net cap, ESPN reported Monday.

An irate Harper reportedly sewage successful Manfred’s look and told him to “get nan f– retired of our clubhouse” if he wanted to talk specified a delicate economical issue.

Manfred replied that he was “not going to get nan f– retired of here,” insisting it was important to talk astir threats to nan league’s business and ways to turn nan game, sources told ESPN.

Other players tried to defuse nan business and Harper and Manfred shook hands aft nan meeting, but Harper would not reply calls from Manfred nan adjacent day, per nan report. The gathering was besides reported past week by The Bandwagon.

“It was beautiful intense, decidedly passionate,” Phillies outfielder Nick Castellanos told ESPN. “Both of ’em. The commissioner giving it backmost to Bryce and Bryce giving it backmost to nan commissioner. That’s Harp. He’s been doing this since he was 15 years old. It’s conscionable different day. I wasn’t surprised.“

Harper, 32, is 1 of nan game’s astir influential players arsenic a two-time National League Most Valuable Player and an eight-time All-Star.

The collective-bargaining statement betwixt MLB and nan MLB Players Association expires connected 1 December, 2026. Many owners person pushed for a net cap, arsenic MLB is nan only awesome men’s athletics successful North America without one. Players are opposed, raising nan specter of a imaginable activity stoppage up of nan 2027 season.

“Rob seems to beryllium successful a beautiful hopeless spot connected really important it is to get this net headdress because he’s floating nan connection lockout 2 years successful beforehand of our corporate bargaining statement (expiration),” Castellanos said. “That’s thing to propulsion around. That’s nan aforesaid point arsenic maine saying successful a marriage, ’I deliberation divorcement is simply a possibility. It’s astir apt going to happen.’ You don’t conscionable opportunity those things.“

Harper and Manfred some declined remark to ESPN. The sojourn pinch nan Phillies was 1 of 30 that Manfred holds annually successful an effort to amended his relations pinch each squad and its players.