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Laura Wagner
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Reporter at Deadspin.

Here’s some detail in case anyone is interested. There was a lot of pressure on everyone in 2004 because MLBAM was built on the investment of team owners, some of whom were forced to invest against their will because they were outvoted and because MLBAM was not yet profitable. Read more

i was one of thise naive ones once. A mid-level manager wrote in my year end review that I was being made to perform 2 separate jobs at a lower wage and i would be promoted as soon as they could. When I brought that up to management a year later after he left, HR rules because the guy left they didnt have to honor Read more

One time, Mike Siano called me lazy (I wasn’t) and said if I didn’t work harder, I could be replaced. He neglected to offer any ideas on how this could be achieved. Read more

They didn’t just lay off full-time workers in those departments; they also laid off long-term part-timers who were promised full-time slots over the years, who they treated like full-timers and worked just as hard (or harder) than their full-time staff, even working overnight shifts to accommodate major demands from Read more

I worked under Siano and Kap for a season - never personally incurred their wrath but worked with plenty who did. I recall one evening in which an executive from the Dodgers reached out to us and asked for a GIF to be made and posted to the Dodger team site and MLB Cut4 twitter account using a cutaway shot from the Read more

As I mentioned in another post, I worked there for one baseball season and it was the worst job I’ve ever had. The constant berating for any issue, big or small, was so freaking stressful. It really soured me on trying to find jobs in fields that I loved, because I really couldn’t even watch baseball for a while after Read more

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A spokeswoman for MLB Network declined to comment when asked who Siano and Kaplan have reported and report to and said, “There have been no reports to human resources of these, or any similar, allegations.” Read more

I worked as a freelance video cutter back in the summer of 2004 before quitting because I didn’t like being continually berated and blamed for systematic issues which I had no control over.  Nice to see things have changed... Read more

I worked there for five years. Three of them full time. Everything in this article is spot on. I called Bret Kaplan once at 4am with a problem. His response was “why would you call me over something like this” then hung up without providing an answer. A week later another problem came up early in the AM and I elected Read more

I’ve always wondered how many people work, directly or indirectly, for the MLB, MLB.com, MLBAM, etc. This includes minor league players, coaching staffs, international developmental leagues, scouts, etc. Read more

While those at the top of the MLB food chain are making more money than ever, those at the bottom are underpaid and overworked, toiling away in a toxic work environment. Read more

This wasn’t just on the tech side. It went on in ancillary departments as well. Bullying, willfully incompetent management, no proper Read more

As someone who used to listen to MLBAM’s fantasy baseball podcast, I can confirm Siano is a dope. And he’s a Yankees/Steelers fan. Read more

MLBAM is one of the few good things of the tenures of Manfred and Selig, so of course they’re fucking it up. Read more

This is a guy who has used his “platform” to support a white nationalist and to amplify white nationalist distortion of Colin Kaepernick’s thoughtful and justified protest of police violence against African-Americans. He has plenty to be sorry for. Read more

My morals and my soul were shaped by the most wonderful woman, the love of my life, who I was blessed to have as my partner for 50 years.” Read more

Almost all of those media outlets are NFL sycophants so of course they’re going to buy his “apology”. I can’t wait for the day he goes to Court to resolve this and either a jury finds him guilty ot he makes and admission he could be found guilty. Expect to see lots of flying dildoes at Ralph Wilson Stadium this year wh Read more

Kid trained for a few years in Riverside, which is my family’s home rink. The economy is good, though, so hockey is eating up almost all of the ice time, and he and all the other top-level US skaters have moved on to Colorado Springs. (There are many, many more people willing to drop $10k/year on junior hockey than on Read more

Hmm, maybe Gottliebs not living by the rules of credit card fraud made him a worse basketball player? Read more

As I read that tweet the sound of a wet fart rang in my ears. Read more