Hour 1: The Self-Inflicted Wound
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I've done a lot of things wrong, and I know it. Self-inflicted wounds are the worst. The Pittsburgh Pirates this weekend had a self-inflicted wound, the likes of which you don't see happen in sports very often. We're talking about Roberto Clemente. We're talking about the nightmare of having to do two statements, not one, two statements to explain The idiocy of honoring Roberto Clemente with an outfield wall plaque, removing it, putting a sponsor instead, and not telling the Clemente family. So many layers to this. Let me start with the most interesting one to me. The Clemente family is high maintenance. You know that going in. They need communication. They need understanding. They want to be front and center.
They deserve to be because of Roberto Clemente. But you've got to know your customer. If you're the Pirates, you can't do something regarding Roberto Clemente without telling Roberto Clemente's family. And they violate it right off the top.
So it was moved? It was moved, right? It wasn't completely replaced. It was moved.
Taken down.
That's the dumbest thing ever. That's terrible.
They still have a statue. They have other ways that they've honored him.
They have a ton of ways. Yeah. But that doesn't change. And what the president of the team tried to say was, hey, listen, totally sorry, but we have... A 21-foot wall. We've got so many things that we've done for Roberto. A bridge. A bridge. It's a really cool bridge.
But the number's retired. The number needs to be there. Straight up.
Well, there's different places the 21 is. This was an extra thing that was put because there was an available space, but they forgot to just be honest with the family and say, hey, we're giving you a little extra. We're just putting it right there, but we're trying to sell it. And once we do... We're removing it. They didn't communicate. And then they sent out their PR head to do a statement Saturday, doubling down, and then they sent out their president Sunday, saying, sorry, our bad, my mistake. He wore it. I had to wear so much as team president, so much that I had nothing to do with that I would just wear.
What was the worst one that was akin to something like this? Because this is about as bad as it gets, right? You're disrespecting not only a legend of the Pirates, but a legend of baseball that is celebrated across the league, and you're coming off the heels of what just happened. with the government website and Jackie Robinson and so everyone is is feeling the effects of like history of our great players of color being a race there's all of it is there anything that you ever dealt with that was even close to what this type of ire that you're sort of going out in front and and taking the heat on they got ire Jeremy I would say that what we did with Karl Barger and on retiring his number we didn't do that probably the way we should have and
And I had to take that, even though I had nothing to do with it. But I had to wear that one. Even though it wasn't your decision to make? No, it was not. Listen, that's your job. When you run a company for an owner or for a founder, you're the meat shield. You have to take stuff that you don't deserve to take, but you do it, you smile, and you say it's your fault. Trevor Williams, the president of the Pirates, he had to take this. But to me, what bothers me about what happened is that he was in that position to start with. When you're a president of a team, you know exactly what your inventory is, your sales inventory. You know exactly what you're doing when you're doing a deal with Surfside.
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