Houston PR vs. the media

Doc Holliday · Oct 26, 2019

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Here's my Nats PR story and let me say upfront I don't think the people in the department were bad folks. I got along with all of them individually and one of them was a huge help with a non-work situation at one point. I think they're just following orders. But yeah, it could be a pain.

June game, looking for an early story, I'm talking to players about visiting the local military hospital earlier that day. Big easy fluff piece. One of the pitchers tells me about going last year and meeting a guy with no arms and no legs. They go this year and the guy walks up to him and shakes his hand. Boom - I've got my lead.

About 20 minutes later, I'm on the other side of the room talking to another player when the pitcher comes over with his phone. He had a shot of him shaking hands with the guy, did I want it? Oh hell yeah. Cool, he says, and starts preparing to text it to me. Out of nowhere, a PR guy materializes like they had an uncanny ability to do. No no no no, you can't do that. The pitcher starts to argue. It's HIS phone, he can do what he wants. They go back and forth and I say, "(PR guy, who I think is still there) is just following orders. This isn't on him. Text it to him and he'll text it to me." Which is done in about 10 seconds.

I finish and am heading out. The pitcher stops me and hands me a folded piece of paper. On it are the cell numbers of everybody on the team.

I have more but I have stuff to do today and this could take forever.

For the most part, the players were very good to deal with and as helpful as they could be under the circumstances. Not all of them but a large percentage.
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Great, great story!

Screwball · Oct 26, 2019

The Nats were in the playoffs one year, and (unless you're the wild card team) there are a few days off between the last game of the regular season and the first game of the playoffs. I was assigned to cover the workouts on the days preceding the first playoff game -- hey, the Nats are excited, here's a glowing feature, etc. The Nats PR people said, nope, the workouts are closed. MLB PR was horrified and ordered the Nats to open the workouts so we could, you know, provide some FREE PUBLICITY.

Cosmo · Oct 28, 2019

The Diamondbacks were excellent to work with during their early days, including the World Series season. Mike Swanson was there then, and I assume the Royals are easy to work with since he's there now.

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