Chaim Bloom

Yeah, there should be some passion.

This doesn't have to be boring.

Here's your host, Rob Bradford.

Um...

It's always changing, but I think these things, while they're happening, they tend to feel more like gradual evolutions as opposed to some sea change.

You always see some things where a team wins or a team gets farther than you might have thought and they're built a certain way and then there's a lot of talk about everybody's going to copy what that team is doing.

I think that tends to be more narrative than reality because in most of these cases...

A team wasn't necessarily a secret how this team was built.

They just executed on it.

And they had really good results.

And most people I know in this business, we're always looking around and trying to see what our competitors are doing.

Not to distract us from what our own identity needs to be, but just understand what's out there.

Understand what the competition is doing.

Make sure we're not missing anything.

And I think those things tend to happen more gradually.

To the extent that you do see it, I think sometimes it's just because...

There are certain innovations, certain developments, potentially coaching, potentially how you can impact the talent level of certain players, or even just the impact they can have on winning, that those will spread quickly around the league.

And it may impact things, like thinking about something like...

When we first began to be able to quantify the impact of receiving, what, 10, 15 years ago, closer to 15, you saw that really change who teams were playing a catcher very quickly.

And those are the types of things that if it's quantifiable, and a lot of times that happens more on the individual player level, somebody will...