60 Year old Intern Ned Colletti, thriving with his gig in San Jose with the Sharks.
The Full 60 with Craig Custance
The Athletic
4.8 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
World Series Champion Ned Colletti is Craig's guest this week on the Full 60. Ned, the author of 'The Big Chair', shares his philosophy on roster construction, and building a team into a winner. The former LA Dodgers General Manager and San Francisco Giants assistant GM discusses his love for hockey, which began as a kid in Chicago, cheering for the great Jean Beliveau, to covering the Flyers as a beat writer, to his current position, working for Doug Wilson and the San Jose Sharks, as a scout.
Ned, who teaches a course on Sports Administration at Pepperdine University, talks about bringing a different perspective to the Sharks front office, He also highlights his relationships with Doug Wilson, Ron Hextall, Dean Lombardi and Brian Burke, thew biggest qualities that he looks for in a player, and the secret to a good negotiation.
In Craig's Two Cents: Custance offers his opinion on the shakeup in New York, with the Rangers owner James Dolan firing President John Davidson, and General Manager Jeff Gorton with only a handful of games remaining for the up and coming blueshirts, this season,
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Full 60 featuring Craig Custins and presented by The Athletic. |
| 0:11.0 | Each week we'll dive into the biggest stories in hockey while bringing in unique voices to entertain and explain all aspects of the game. |
| 0:24.3 | Hey, this is Craig, and welcome to this week's episode of the full 60. |
| 0:29.3 | All right, this person is completely overqualified, I would say. |
| 0:34.3 | I don't even know how to introduce Ned Kalebi here. |
| 0:37.0 | He longtime GM of the Dodgers, Emmy Award winning analyst. |
| 0:42.6 | He is a bestselling author. |
| 0:46.6 | He's done everything. |
| 0:47.6 | He's a professor, a speaker. |
| 0:50.5 | Also, finds time to scout as an NHL scout for the San Jose Sharks. Ned Coletti. How are you, Ned? I'm doing excellent. Great to be with you, Frank. It was funny. I was going, and I read, I was looking at the reviews of your book because I think that's just where I'm drawing. You want to see what people think. And you had a quote from John Shulian, who I love. I'm just a fan of John. I don't know him at all. But it's, it was about your book, The Big Chair, and it said, well, put this book in a category of its own is its big thumping heart. And man, do I, like, I love stories with heart. I love people with heart. |
| 1:30.1 | And like that to me is the ultimate compliment of a book. |
| 1:31.4 | So, off, that's awesome. It was pretty cool. |
| 1:32.9 | And I was honored that John, who was one of my idols growing up, really, |
| 1:38.4 | somebody that I really appreciated and loved his work for decades decades that he would review it like that was |
| 1:47.2 | incredible for me. |
| 1:48.8 | Yeah, that's awesome. |
| 1:51.1 | All right. |
| 1:52.0 | I want to start with you. |
| 1:54.3 | It's funny, like, you know, when you look at your bio, all these incredible things you've done. |
| 1:59.2 | And then there's like this one line. |
| 2:00.3 | By the way, you know, is the San Jose Sharks scout. And then there's like this one line, by the way, |
| 2:06.0 | you know, is the San Jose Sharks scout. But I'm sure to you, it's way more than a footnote, right? |
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