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bobbleheadguru
Why is this considered rational move, but in 2016, we still do not have ANY female executives in all four major sports?
tstokes97
How is that even remotely relevant to this?
st1300b 2
No doubt, besides I’m pretty sure there are female owners which count as executives.
bobbleheadguru
It is directly connected.
The “inner circle” of franchise leadership gets to “think outside the box” and pick a GUY from a different sport (remember Michigan coach Bo becoming the Tigers president in the 90s?).
Meanwhile, there is exactly ONE female executive (Kim Ng) out of over 120 sports franchises.
vmmercan 2
He’s also turned multiple franchises with small payrolls around and is a Harvard grad. That MIGHT have something to do with his particular career opportunities.
disgruntledreader 2
Uhhhh, which franchises are you counting?
tstokes97
This man has an ivy league degree and mostly handles statistical analysis which is completely transferable between sports. And there are plenty of female executives just none in the top positions.
disgruntledreader 2
Care to name a few who are at a director level or above?
I’m pretty familiar with the baseball ops structures around the league, and Jean Afterman in the Bronx is the only one I can think of. Coordinator level positions in scouting and player development offices (the sort of position Priscilla Oppenheimer was awesome at – and unable to get above – 30 years ago) or Justine Siegal’s occasional cameos are most definitely not executive.
I don’t know the other sports nearly as well. If they’re more progressive, I’d love to know it.
DoolittleDoolate
Gender equality does not mean there should be an equal amount of men and women (or even a particular sex represented at all). Gender equality means that the best people for the job (regardless of sex) have the top positions. If that means all men or all women, then that’s what is should be. Not saying this is the case, but just because there is little or none of a sex represented does not make it incorrect.
jd396
9 out of 10 cops are men and 9 out of 10 RN’s are women. Pretty sure that’s not because they do a genital check during the interview.
rizdakc99
Kim Ng is a VP in MLB. Martha Ford owns the Lions.
I don’t disagree with your underlying pitch for gender equality. But saying there are NO executives is incorrect.
bobbleheadguru
Stand corrected. Thanks.
disgruntledreader 2
I assume he means no team has a female employee as CEO/SVP Ops/GM, or even a director-level position on the sport operations side. Kim Ng’s stints as AGM are, sadly, pretty much the only such example, and it’s now been five years since she worked for the Dodgers. I’m glad that Amanda Hopkins will be working Four Corners for the Mariners (though I fear she’s no more the start of a pattern than Edith Houghton was 60 years ago), and the visible success of Becky Hammon and Nancy Lieberman in the NBA is encouraging.
But his assertion that there are no actual executive positions (nepotistic generational ties in the owner’s office notwithstanding) filled by a woman at any of the 120 professional sports franchises is absolutely accurate.
bobbleheadguru
Wow!
I am floored by the phrase “nepotistic generational ties…” Brilliantly written!
trueblue442
Good, I still hate this man for trading my favorite player Paul LoDuca.
vtadave
Haha, but how could you forget the chants involving the guy they got in return?;
HEE SEOP CHOI
HEE SEOP CHOI
HEE SEOP CHOI
HEE SEOP CHOI
puigpower
Nice! I still have my Team DePo shirt. What a tool I was.
hojostache
Best of luck to him. I really thought he was a solid contributor for the front office, too bad he had limited financial support and couldn’t pursue int’l signings as much as he probably wanted while with the Mets.
Leaving for the home of, “The Sad Factory” is the epitome of wanting to build a franchise from the ground up.
norcalblue
Agree!
I always felt he got such a raw deal with the Dodgers and LA–basically he was railroaded and run out of town by Plaschke. He handled it all with such class. I wish him the very best.
sampsonite168
DP: After hundreds of hours of painstaking research, here is my list of the top 30 players that best suit our needs and give us the best possible chance to win a World Series next year.
Wilpon: They’re all too expensive. No thanks.
DP: I quit.
dutch91701
Probably not far from the truth
sddew
Really funny and probably quite true.
fmfish12
Peter Brand!
Strauss
To the browns? That’s the way to screw a career up!