No there is no other one, no there is no other one.

I can't help any other one, no other one.

Now I never could live on.

Good morning and welcome to episode 730 of Effectively Wild,

a daily podcast from baseball perspectives brought to you by the Play Index at

baseballreference.com. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh of Grantland. Hello Ben.

Hello. How are you? Very well. Thank you. Anything that you want to talk about?

Yeah, a couple things. Me too. We bit a banter. Me too. Mineral GM related.

Does it surprise you that the brewers hired headhunters to find David Sterns their new GM?

Huh. I was just reading Evan Drelix's response to the hiring for the Houston Chronicle and he mentioned,

I'm sure it had been reported before that the brewers when they announced that they were looking

for a replacement for Melvin, they also announced that they had retained executive search firm

Corn Fairy, which Wikipedia tells me is the world's largest executive search firm.

So it's weird in the sense that there's like 40 qualified people in the world and they're all famous.

Yeah. Well, we've talked about that before whether whether the best qualified potential GMs are

all people who are working in baseball or what percentage of them are waiting on. So did this

headhunting firm find Sterns or did they just did they engage him and then they ended up?

Yeah, I don't know. I guess it doesn't say. I mean, they retained them and then they hired Sterns.

So I don't know. We've never been given any indication that a team was looking to hire a GM

that wasn't already in baseball. So it's probably safe to assume that they weren't out looking at,

you know, Apple vice presidents. Right. So presumably they found Sterns, but even if they didn't

presumably they were looking in the same places that one might find a Sterns. So it is odd in that sense.

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