The Blue Jays couldn’t figure out what to do about Bass. The more they tried to explain things, the less explained those things became
When the general manager of your sports team comes out to address reporters two days in a row, you better hope the second time is to announce he’s surprising everyone with cake. Otherwise, you have a problem.
The next day, it was to avoid explaining why he’d 180′d and decided on that different outcome after all. It was not frank. It was close to frankless. The Jays also managed to turn the Toronto baseball beat feral by appearing to give a couple of reporters special access to Bass’s journey of redemption.
Unlike other places, everyone who works the sports office has a direct line to millions of people. Have a few too many pops one night, scroll a little too hard, hit send and ka-BOOM. And then, “You. You were a sub-replacement reliever. If we hear you tipped less than 20 per cent at any restaurant anywhere in the country, including doughnut shops, you’re fired.”This is a billion-dollar enterprise. Why don’t they have emergency envelopes in a safe, like the president? When the phone call comes, they can reach in there and pull out a DUI or a Hasn’t Paid Child Support in a Year. Each envelope contains a series of instructions.
But that’s what the Jays did. Despite all the brain power on the operations end of things, the Jays couldn’t figure out what to do once Bass began “… but on the other hand.”
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