Featuring: the ongoing broadcast saga, Gibbers and Griffins, and a ton of Mark Shapiro (including comments on Buffalo, Mickey Callaway, Pearson, Vlad, Danny Jansen, the Dunedin complex, and more!)
Good stuff, as always. I love these notes sections, and miss them since the old blog days.
I love watching the games in a game thread, so hopefully we get some regulars once the season starts?
One of the things I don't envy you for, Stoeten, is having to parse through the torrent of corporate, self help, Tony Robbins-esque horseshit vocabulary coming from Shapiro constantly. He's done a good job as Jays president, truly, and seems like a pretty nice guy but Jesus H Christ.
When an MLB player (or any professional athlete) tests positive for steroids, invariably their response is one of innocence. When MLB front office officials are told that one of their employees was involved in sexual harassment, they all seem to claim that they knew nothing about it. I'm not accusing Shapiro or Atkins of anything, but it's beginning to sound like a familiar refrain.
Regardless of whether or not Shapiro actually knew of Mickey Callaway's workplace sexual harassment, Shapiro is still responsible.
There's a reason executives, of sports teams and other workplaces, go on and on about corporate culture and values. It's because they don't know everything that's going on. It's because they rely on middle managers, supervisors, etc., who know what's going on to make decisions. And executives require those decisions to be consistent with the corporate culture and values that they've established.
So, either Shapiro completely failed as a leader in determining and communicating the values that were supposed to guide the decisions of his subordinates in Cleveland, or the values he established tolerated sexual harassment in the workplace.
And now to excuse himself because he didn't have actual knowledge?
And to say this past year has taught everybody the importance equality? As if 2010, when Callaway joined Cleveland, was such a different time?
Or to feel "disappointed" because the VICTIMS didn't come forward, instead of because his subordinates allowed such behaviour to continue?
That's leadership?
Then again, Atkin's also said some of the same "right things," so I guess Shapiro has been successful in establishing his winning culture.
Man, feel bad for Valera. Not only missed out on a legit playing opportunity but also, I assume, didn't collect a pay cheque while restricted. Hope he gets a shot
Any update, its been a week...
Good stuff, as always. I love these notes sections, and miss them since the old blog days.
I love watching the games in a game thread, so hopefully we get some regulars once the season starts?
One of the things I don't envy you for, Stoeten, is having to parse through the torrent of corporate, self help, Tony Robbins-esque horseshit vocabulary coming from Shapiro constantly. He's done a good job as Jays president, truly, and seems like a pretty nice guy but Jesus H Christ.
When an MLB player (or any professional athlete) tests positive for steroids, invariably their response is one of innocence. When MLB front office officials are told that one of their employees was involved in sexual harassment, they all seem to claim that they knew nothing about it. I'm not accusing Shapiro or Atkins of anything, but it's beginning to sound like a familiar refrain.
Regardless of whether or not Shapiro actually knew of Mickey Callaway's workplace sexual harassment, Shapiro is still responsible.
There's a reason executives, of sports teams and other workplaces, go on and on about corporate culture and values. It's because they don't know everything that's going on. It's because they rely on middle managers, supervisors, etc., who know what's going on to make decisions. And executives require those decisions to be consistent with the corporate culture and values that they've established.
So, either Shapiro completely failed as a leader in determining and communicating the values that were supposed to guide the decisions of his subordinates in Cleveland, or the values he established tolerated sexual harassment in the workplace.
And now to excuse himself because he didn't have actual knowledge?
And to say this past year has taught everybody the importance equality? As if 2010, when Callaway joined Cleveland, was such a different time?
Or to feel "disappointed" because the VICTIMS didn't come forward, instead of because his subordinates allowed such behaviour to continue?
That's leadership?
Then again, Atkin's also said some of the same "right things," so I guess Shapiro has been successful in establishing his winning culture.
Jansen answer was interesting for skipping past Reese McGuire...
Man, feel bad for Valera. Not only missed out on a legit playing opportunity but also, I assume, didn't collect a pay cheque while restricted. Hope he gets a shot