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How about this? Not sure what to think about it yet ...

Now that they’ve shit-canned the ugly blonde, I see DraftKings has reduced their rotation to a single spot about talking about baseball in the way a football or basketball fan would. And they’re hammering us with it. Every. Single. Half-Inning.

Enjoy it while you can, they’re trying to fix it right now. I saw them just use MASN’s graphic with Mountcastle’s stats. MASN actually has the cleanest view of any baseball broadcast this year: a scorebox in the upper left corner, and that’s it. Not even a MASN logo. Great decision.

I don’t see any Bally crawl on the screen. Just a clean open view of the game. Just like the old days, except in HD and without blurry lines or snow. I love it.

Probably just as well.

I might normally hope that Scott Harris replaces Shep and Old Guys, but it really doesn’t matter since I do radio audio overlay anyway.

I wouldn't say flat out this could never happen, but I really do think giving the gate to Miggy would create more noise around the organization than Baby Doc would want to put up with. I think he'll get limited ABs and spend a lot of time next year on the IL, perhaps even the 60-day at the end.

"Risk-adverse", says the guy who writes for a living. 😏

Got my reply from Scott's dad. We got a date once the ring is here.

Two million easy!

The only thing I worry about with Buttigieg running is that a not-insignificant number of people who typically vote Democrat won't vote for a man because he's gay, i.e., socially conservative people of color. It might be enough to swing the election all by itself.

Alarmist Non-sense not so alarmist after all.

Exactly. Someone who won’t get DFA’ed for one too any homers.

Not a scrub, at least on purpose. It would take a guy with a secure career to do something like that.

Me too

All those millions of posts just gone. Bit of a shame.

My guess is that Scott Harris felt he was ready for the big chair but knew he'd be blocked in San Francisco for as long as Farhan Zaidi wants to. I'm hoping he took copious how-to-build-a-front-office notes in his three years there as second banana.

According to the 2012 Media Guide, "David" Dombowski's title was "President, Chief Executive Officer & General Manager".

So funny to see Theo signing from the analyctis-and-scouts-together hymnbook considering the recent Joe Maddon interview ...

On a personal note, I sort of know Scott Harris's dad. We were on the same team at Cubs camp in 2020 (just before COVID hit), which Scott had gifted him the prior Christmas. We had a couple of conversations at length and one morning at breakfast he showed me Scott's 2016 Cubs ring, which he'd brought to camp with him. Talk about super impressive. I just dropped him a mazel tov in the email. He's probably got hundreds of people doing the same with him, so who knows if I hear back. But whether he does or doesn't, he's a really good guy, and I'm really happy for him.

This is the right direction for Baby Doc to go in, versus doubling down on eyeball scouting with someone like Matt Slater. I am optimistic that this means they are serious about going in the right direction, finally. I notice that they have hired him as President of Baseball Ops. I assume this means they will be bringing on a general manager to report in to him? That's the structure they had in San Francisco, so my early assumption is that Harris will replicate to some close degree the structure they have out there. That would mean we should expect to see one more big front office hire—or promotion?—before Spring Training starts. Even if they bring on another person for the GM role, I would think that as in San Francisco, Harris would be the guy front-and-center representing the team and its mission to the media and the fans.

I picked up a Stars shirt at the negro leagues museum in Kansas City and it is actually one of the softest, most comfortable shirts I own.

Man, twenty years? Stop the calendar!

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