That Aud Smell

You’ve made lotsa comments about Kim Pegula’s management roles. Stuff to the effect of choosing colours and picking out fabric swatches comes to mind. You’ve also differentiated between Terry and her when it comes to the rights and privileges of being an owner. I urge some honest self-reflection on the subject.

Up your dosage, sir.

He lost his job because of bad stuff he did. Your family will tend to be in chaos when you are a prodigious philanderer. Ding , b1tches. (D0ng is a no-no?)

What about the STH cookie favors? Will she bake those?

Also, eff Harrington for encouraging the Twitter trolls who are LOL’ing PSE’s “amateur hour” because they separated a bad guy as president and had an owner take over his position. I’m debating whether Harrington is condoning and promoting thinly veiled sexism, just plain sexism, or low key misogyny.

Fair. My idea isn’t to have people installed between ownership and the current GMs (hence VPs). Just someone who can advise ownership. But I get what you’re saying. It may be that the current GMs are already de facto presidents of football/hockey ops. There are many, many situations in this modern 24-hour news cycle of ours where “don’t rush to conclusions” is good advice. This isn’t one of them. I saw it Tweeted (Bulldog from WGR?) and posted upthread: It’s likely impossible to think of a sports ownership statement that didn’t acknowledge and/or thank an outgoing president. The Pegulas said nothing about Brandon. Brandon is a bad guy. And that fact is now coming to light. It is utterly perplexing to me that this is where someone would want to take things, inferentially. Pro tip: If you’re the president of a billion dollar enterprise, then there is presumptively no such thing as a consensual relationship with people working for the organization. I won’t debate that. And I’ll preemptively hold my nose at any post that deploys feminist concepts to argue a woman’s agency in the face of a senior officer’s sexual advances.

Btw, Harrington’s take that Kim Pegula should bring in some football/hockey VPs is ... a fair one. She should.

Riddle: How do you know when Russ Brandon is lying?

Huh? (I am sleepy.)

Your tendencies towards contrarianism and skepticism are ... maybe an ill fit in this situation. I’d urge you to tread lightly.

Stuff to make your skin crawl.

Sounds like the dirt is being dished over at TBD. There’s so much of it - I mean, take your choice.

Yep, yep. That was no rumour either.

It’s of some comfort that Mrs. Pegula wielded the hatchet.

Please stop. Quid pro quo, Clarice. Quid. Pro. Quo.

It’s strange ot hear that. The number of credible stories I heard about the guy (I heard several of them more than once from different people), combined with my personal interactions with him (arrogant prick who has not a quarter as smart as he thought he was), left no doubt on the subject for me. None.

Not sure what this means. But it seems to be over-thinking matters.

Not single.

Also: It’ll be fun to keep a *keen* eye on Wawrow’s sourced reports.

I wonder if Beane and JBOT get some additional titles/duties out of this — football ops, hockey ops. Wormtongue is too politically savvy for that sort of stuff.

Well. It is. They're just not terribly good at it, imo.

Yeah - it's basically being president of PSE. I wonder if she will bring in some additional people. I've come to discover that her taste in matters creative is not really in line with mine -- but I respect her approach of being a no-nonsense sort of businesswoman.

Brandon be like #WormtongueGTFO

I've never been terribly specific here. Because reasons. But be assured: Bad guy.

Sh1t like that does not stay out of the light of day. It doesn't. It always comes to light. See ya. Oh. And quite rich that Graham would report on that particular point. I meant what I said about him. All of it.