Barry Svrluga

Coming to the end of week one here.

And I'm hoping it is, you know, a reasonable version of my old job that can, you know, serve the fans of Washington and give them some insight about the teams that they care about.

I spent the last couple of days at Nats Park.

getting to know the new people there and writing off something yesterday.

And I'll head out to a little commander's availability later today.

So get my feet wet in familiar territory subject-wise, but a little bit unfamiliar territory in terms of where it's published.

I mean, I haven't had a

First day on a new job in 23 years.

So it's a little unsettling at some level, but really comforting at another.

I counted 310, but, you know, we'll...

We can quibble.

So, I'm impressed.

I mean, listen, I've been watching in the time that I was off.

It is, they handle things much, much differently.

I did not meet Blake Butera until...

Wednesday, when I went there for my first time professionally, certainly handled himself well.

I'm not going to concentrate on the age.

I don't want to demean them for being 20 years younger than I am.

That's not their fault.

They were given these jobs and entrusted Paul Taboney with leading a brand new baseball operations department.