Yeah.

On the other hand, I think that it's possible we've never seen an executive have as bad an off-season as David Stearns had, and perhaps not even as bad a two-year stretch as, like, in any sport.

I think it is, he managed to, obviously not only is the team bad, but, like, they're also very expensive, and then on top of that, it's not just they are bad, they are expensive.

They are bad, they are expensive, and the David Stearns model was supposed to sort of be smarter than just throwing money at the problem, and so in some way saving money, I suppose, and they didn't do that.

Like, it's...

I, I think that that kind of, like, triple whammy of failure, like, if the team was bad and expensive and they had just brought back all of their guys, you'd be like, "Well, that's a trap you can sometimes fall into when you're trying to...

You've got hometown goggles on or whatever, and you think you-

Mm

Hmm.

And the Giants and Dodgers at the time specifically requested to be allowed to continue to wear the rainbow versions of their uniforms on Pride Night because of how important the queer fan base is in those markets, in San Francisco and in Los Angeles.

And in, and because of the sort of specific history that those organizations have with that cause.

So the Giants have been celebrating s- some version of, I guess you could call it Pride.

They had, like, an HIV/AIDS awareness night dating back to 1994.

The Dodgers h- were the team of both Billy Bean and Glenn Burke, the first two Major League Baseball players to eventually come out as gay.

They came out after they retired.

That was a huge deal at the time.

Hmm.

And the Giants and Dodgers at the time specifically requested to be allowed to continue to wear the rainbow versions of their uniforms on Pride Night because of how important the queer fan base is in those markets, in San Francisco and in Los Angeles, and in, and because of the sort of specific history that those organizations have with that cause.

So the Giants have been celebrating s- some version of, I guess you could call it Pride.

They had, like, an HIV/AIDS awareness night dating back to 1994.

The Dodgers h- were the team of both Billy Bean and Glenn Burke, the first two Major League Baseball players to eventually come out as gay.

They came out after they retired.

And in fact, this year on their Pride Night, the Dodgers unveiled a permanent memorial to Glenn Burke and Billy Bean.

That was a huge deal at the time.

Agreed.

Hello, this is Hannah Keyser, now of CNN Sports.

My prediction for the next 17 years is that sports leagues will lean into the reality TV-ification of their own broadcasts.

So think kind of like Drive to Survive style, but rather than partnering with documentary productions to create something post-hoc, these are real time presentations of their games, matches, races, whatever, that play up the characters, the storylines, even leaning into sort of wags, off-field, off-court type stuff.

Um, it feels like sports media has really embraced that kind of thing as a way to reach new fans.

Um, and concurrently, reality TV scandals feel more monoculture-y to me than even big major sports news do.

And I think in the future, the sports leagues, the sports broadcasts will attempt to kind of be all of those things at once while also still owning the product itself.