Transition: Michael Reinsdorf didn't deliver a message that fans wanted to hear
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What message did Michael Reinsdorf fail to deliver to fans?
If Shams didn't report it, then it obviously didn't happen.
I mean, Michael Reinsdorf is all of us in that respect. So that I get. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grote for one more time today. As we give way to Spiegel and Holmes, we want to thank our people first. Ray Diaz, Tyler Buterbaugh, Brandon Fryer helped us out, Connor O'Donnell, Jacob Stutz, Max Curtis, and Cody Westerlin. And our fabulous guest panel today, Joelle Lorenzi, Shakia Taylor, Megan Montemurro, Mike Florio. We thank them all. And say hi to Matt and Lawrence. Hi, Matt and Lawrence.
Damn, y'all had a show today.
That we did. Did you leave anything else for us to talk about, or is it all done? There's so much for you guys to talk about.
You guys got to react. After you got to react to Michael Reinsdorf in real time, I think you... Yeah, you guys are good.
That was something.
How do fans perceive Michael Reinsdorf's leadership?
That really was. It's funny, because we talked about it 24 hours ago in transition, and I was like, yeah, you know, it's going to be interesting for a lot of fans to wrap their heads around Michael Reinsdorf and maybe understand some stuff in a different way.
I think they understand it perfectly, and it's not in a different way.
It's deeper, though, isn't it? It starts at the top, man. You hung out with that guy for 30 minutes, and you're like, okay, I get it. I get why this is a mess.
Yeah, and his seeming belief that now we're going to clean it up, clean slate, but Billy's the dude, by the way, so the slate's not completely clean.
It's a problem. It is a problem, and it's a problem that people over there don't want to acknowledge as being real.
Don't you think, I think Michael believes that he can clean it up. He's got some earnestness and a little naivete. I think it's loyalty.
It's loyalty to a fault.
Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty.
It is. And I think if you really want to be loyal, you pay out the extension that you sent him to last year.
We don't know that there was an extension. Did Shams report it?
It was reported by multiple sources that there was an extension given to Billy Donovan last year.
Well, he says full on that AK and Eversley did not have them.
So they were on a six-year contract? Is that what you're telling me? I don't know. We don't know about that life. If there was no extension and they were in those positions for six years... I've got to check what Shams reported.
Well, he just said we don't talk about contracts. That was the definitive answer.
Right, and that's why there was an opportunity there for you to talk about contracts. And if you're not going to then when asked directly about contracts, then you are allowing for people to speculate off of the reporting that they're not getting from you.
That's it. If you don't set the agenda, somebody else will.
Did you guys think there was an, like an optimism and an earnestness about Michael that there is not about Jerry? A hundred percent.
Yeah.
What challenges does Michael Reinsdorf face in rebuilding the team?
I think that, I'm sorry, Leila. I apologize for cutting you off. I think that there is a real, there's, he's a nice guy.
Yeah. And he believes that he can do good things. Jerry knows that the business is cooked and he's kind of cooked with it. He's done.
Michael, famously, the last time this happened, you know, ahead of when he hired Archurus Karnaschovas and Mark Eversley, Michael said, we knew we needed to do something different, so we did. Like, he was very practical about it and reasonable. I don't know that it's naivete as much as, I think it's just the loyalty that they have. Like, you were the one person in our organization at this level who was stable, so we want to reward you. When in reality, unfortunately, the best practice requires some dissonance, right? And I think that that's what they grapple with. Loyalty is, you know how it is, the people in the building will always talk about that as a highlight. If you work for them, that's a good thing.
But in this case, it comes with a conflict.
What you're saying makes absolutely all the sense in the world. The problem is, can they remove themselves and take enough steps? Can they backpedal far enough away from the problem to really see the big picture?
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What message did Michael Reinsdorf fail to deliver to fans?
0:01–0:52
2
How do fans perceive Michael Reinsdorf's leadership?
0:52–2:48
3
What challenges does Michael Reinsdorf face in rebuilding the team?
2:48–6:19
4
How does loyalty affect decision-making in sports organizations?
6:19–6:42
5
What are the implications of contract negotiations for Billy Donovan?
6:42–9:15
6
How does Michael Reinsdorf's optimism compare to Jerry's approach?
9:15–17:03
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