Rob Bradford

Our beat writers will hear things, right?

It, you know, it might end up getting funneled to me, but it is very much a group effort here where, and there are plenty of times where something ends up with somebody else's byline, but it's because somebody else

Yeah, I get that.

But the point is that nobody enjoys writing it more than you.

These people who are finding out information and siphoning information to you, they don't want to write it.

Let's be honest.

They want to write about the other stuff.

Yeah, I've, you know, one of the last stories I did in Boston, Rob, for a regional sports network that shall not be named, was a large look at the players union and kind of their failings or trappings at the time.

And you know what?

That's why you were fired.

Um, yeah, you might be right.

It was too easy.

You know, look, I've spent the last six years focusing on the off the field.

And this goes back to, I remember, I'm sure you remember Rob, I was a beat writer covering the Houston Astros and everything they were doing was crazy.

tailored to the collective bargaining agreement in kind of really specific ways.

And I would have been a negligent beat writer if I wasn't paying attention to CBA.

So, yeah, I have been more moved by the levers of power.

That's my preferred phrase for all this in the game than I think most people.

The sport is so random.

It's not that I don't enjoy it and I don't see truth in it, but it's easier for me to find objective truth in the off-the-field stuff than on the field.