Dave Dombrowski Took the Phillies Job Because MLB Told Him Nashville's MLB Bid Was Being Pushed Back Due to COVID

Well, it looks like Major League Baseball in Nashville — for now, at least — is yet another thing you can scratch off your list due to COVID.

Dave Dombrowski, who joined Music City Baseball, LLC in July to help spearhead Nashville's bid for an MLB team, apparently took his new job as the Phillies' president of baseball operations after finding out Nashville was going to be waiting a little while longer for a baseball team.

Honestly, this actually strikes me as great news. This makes it sound like to me that MLB in Nashville is more of a "when" rather than an "if" and the timetable has just been pushed back. I'm sure losing someone that established from the team lobbying for a bid will hurt, but they'll be fine. And maybe once the Dombrowski era in Philadelphia flops — as every era in Philadelphia does — he can come right on back down South and lead the charge for the coolest expansion franchise in sports history.

We don't need all these fancy baseball people leading the charge, anyway. We still have Justin Timberlake, Luke Combs and Darius Rucker leading the charge. There will be Major League Baseball in Tennessee and it will be the best damn party in the country.