Dan Duquette

No doubt, no doubt about it.

That is Dan Duquette-esque.

It is.

Yikes.

rodriguez was part of that

Well, Grayson Rodriguez was actually Duquette's last draft, right? I mean, so – No, I'm just trying to think of the

players that were

literally

–

when he – eight years later is still citing the state of the franchise when he arrived, and then you actually look at that team and say – There were a number of those guys who were already in the system.

The point is, say what you want about Dan Duquette and the end of the Buck Showalter era, and believe me, that was done.

It was beyond done.

There were a lot of those when I was a kid.

Dan Duquette was pretty obsessed with those guys.

There was one year when Pat Rapp was his big free agency pickup.

There's Pete Shurick, John Burnett, who was actually pretty good going into it, but he loved to get those guys.

To help him, you know, I was surprised for that.

And the name of the man who did that for me was Dan Duquette.

Dan Duquette.

Sure.

I really didn't want to go to Montreal because I had been a coach before then.

So, yeah, I mean, I, you know, I, I remember thinking at the time where it's just like, man, I'd love for there to be something to be excited about at some point in the not too distant future.

And thankfully buck show, Walter and Dan Duquette came along six

more years after that,

whether that was a happy accident or not, there, there was at least some prosperity that, that followed that eventually.

For Holub, it's a homecoming.

The boys' Latin alum was a baseball operations assistant under former general manager Dan Duquette.

Elsewhere in the East, the Rays are winners of the division.

And Yande,

Chris Bassett in Game 1 for Baltimore, undecided in Game 2.

Meanwhile, Mike Elias dipping into the Mariners' brain trust and bringing home Ty Hollub to be a senior analyst of domestic scouting for the Birds.

Hollub from Baltimore prepped at Boys Latin and was an assistant under Dan Duquette back in the 2010s.

Pretty revealing comment by Ravens head coach Jesse Minter on Monday when asked about his defense as a whole and what contributed to the lackluster second half showing against the

In fact, he was the GM of the 94 team.

It was actually put together by Dan Duquette, most of the team.

But Kevin had a daily show called the Malone Report.

And one time he put on Ron Howard was in town.

And I think that At this point, the Orioles need somebody in the front office who is focused on doing things the right way, not the quick way, is not focused incessantly on analytics, understands that there's a human element to the game.

You know, people get on me because I talk about this a lot on Twitter, X, whatever, but like, get me a Dan Duquette type.

Like, go get me somebody who is like, you know, Not necessarily a super-duper analytical guy who's, you know, when they have an opportunity to go for a World Series, they go all in.

Get me someone like that.

And I just, it frustrates me to no end.

And that's why I will die on this hill.

You got to give Dan Duquette credit for going forward in 2014.

You do.

Mm-hmm.

Has anybody squandered as much goodwill with a fan base, any legend, has squandered as much goodwill with the fan base when keeping strictly s- related to the sport? You talk about Roger Clemens and the steroid stuff and his, his falling out with Dan Duquette many years ago, stuff like that.

That's up there.

But Cam Neely has gone from legend to he's a franchise legend, but he's so polarizing now because of what, how he's acted, what he's d- he's, he's a dinosaur, and he refuses to adjust to the evolving league.