Guru Jagat

The buzz term is social space within a stadium, right? I mean, I'm sure

Katie, which I will also, which I

will also say is a 43 year old crankier as I crankier and crankier as I get older.

I just think like, can we go to watch the games? I don't know, but I guess that's not everyone.

it.

It's a slippery slope, dude.

Listen, Katie Griggs, Don Rovac, Mark Fine, all of you frauds, all of you neophytes, whatever else I've called you that has offended you.

I'll call you out-of-towners who don't know your ass from your elbow about this city, the fan base in this city, the people who love baseball in this city, the people that I've drank with at bars and had crab cakes everywhere in this city, the people I've gotten on buses and rode to Tennessee and Jacksonville and Carolina and New England to go to sporting events.

Y'all know that you're trying to premium out everybody.

Y'all know nobody likes Katie Griggs.

Y'all know nobody likes Craig Albernaz.

Y'all know all of us are going to defend Jim Palmer.

And it's the game of discernment, of focus, where you're getting inundated more and more with more and more distraction and static.

I loved studying with Guru Jagat.

There's a lot out there about her and all the things.

And welcome to a lot of that but i'll tell you what that woman changed my life in so many ways and one of the biggest things she continued to remind us is the game of living in alignment and on purpose is tuning out all the static and just staying focused

We might throw it in as a cheap shot if the Ravens lose to the Cowboys this week, which they can certainly do in Rio.

But I don't know what's going to compel you and me to talk about the Baltimore Orioles as a functioning unit in any positive way other than the amount of manure I'm about to pile on their effing heads in my column this about Elias, Griggs, Rubenstein, Arrigetti saving at the strike.

the warehouse their payroll watching other teams play in October the on and on and on and on is Cal Ripken running like oh we'll go all night on all that I'll get ready for that but at the end of it you want to talk baseball and about the team yeah and as we get to the end of this this has been a really ugly look like it's almost like don't watch because it's it's it's It's not Major League Baseball this week.

And it's a hell of a way to go out on all of this for me.

He's like, from the outside, he's like, Pete Alonzo went to a place where he had another awful season, just like everything that happened for the Mets.

And that can't be... a nice vibe for him going into the strike where he's going to be one of the guys saying, we're not taking the deal.

We're not taking the deal because the owners are going to blame it on the players in April and say, Hey, you know, we got all this money dangling for these millionaire players and they're going to put their Chad steals in front of it or whomever, whoever their people are, their Katie Griggs is in front of it.

And yeah, You know, the Pete Alonzo is going to have to be the prick.

What Rubenstein and Arrigetti would look at this and say, all is well, we're billionaires, or whether they care or who cares a lot.

I guess Katie Griggs cares a lot, Mark Fine and Don Robax and these people they brought in.

But the bad news is they're in control of nothing.

none of this any more than you and George Bush were in 1994 or the Hofburger wasn't 81.

Like it is, this thing takes a life of its own, this labor thing and the amount of anxiety and angst that goes into this at every level for everyone that works for Katie Griggs and Mark fine.

And the people in these, these baseball teams, let alone the players and the things we think about for what a pitcher is going to go through in this off season.

But, These organizations are really going to be taxed, all of them, and especially the ones that don't have a lot of money and the ones that are always sweating out every season ticket.

Those are the folks whose stories need to be told.