Hats Galore

The New Era booth had a million different hats. Rawlings, Wilson all
the dealers are here all trying to sell, sell, sell. Tons of stadium
design firms, publications, stadium software, souvenirs, craziness...
I'll have to go back tomorrow and collect all the free giveaways.

Like I said there's all kinds of merchandise here. I was even courted
by a woman who wanted me to be a $6,000 greasless deep fryer. She
made me feel like a king and there was free food involved.

The Trade Show - Lot's Of Usefull Stuff

Like this!

Too Late

The Reds called me at 11:30 Pm to do an interview tonight. They
really enjoy trying to catch you off gaurd. So I put my pants back on
and made what seemed to be my 1000th trip down this hallway from my
room, out thru the casino, across "the strip" into the Bellagio,
through their casino and back over to the infamous lobby. Passed
everyone from the media including Steve Phillips and Roch Kubatko!!
(couldn't do a photo though). Good interview.

I actually spent most of the day at the job fair and interviewed with
the Dodgers there. Initially I wasn't selected from the 500 or so
resumes, but I noticed one of the selected hadn't claimed an open time
slot so I swooped in and snuck my way into the interview room.

Now I'm not going to say it was my best interview, but the guy seemed
to like the initiative. The plan is to meet with him again maybe
tomorrow or Wednesday.

Earlier in the evening I met up with the Brewers and took my pitch
test. Basically you get 60 pitches and you have to determine the
pitch type between a Fastball, Changeup, slider, and curveball. You
see the pitch twice, but it's far from easy and it's super important
to do well on the test since the job revolves around watching tons of
games and charting and logging the data for advance scouting.

As I was waiting around for the Brew Crew I shook some hands and
chatted up a few other notables including the one and only Ken
Rosenthal! He and I talked about how the Baltimore Sun breeds
impressive talent... Kurkjian, Shaunessey, Buster Olney, and Rosenthal
of course. That's basically mlbtraderumors.com in a nutshell.

I also intercepted ANDY "the rebuilder" MACPHAIL in the lobby. I must
say he's very friendly and I thanked him for the ticket he gave me to
that Orioles win back in September... Of course, he knew nothing about
it since it wasn't he who gave it to me, but they were his seats
nevertheless. I think it's a MacPhail reunion here in Vegas this
week. It's just one of those long standing baseball names.

Sorry no interesting Boras or player news. I pretty much missed all
that today while I was at the Hilton.

Ok bed time. Finally.