Midnight, nothing personal word of the day for February 3rd, 2022 is midnight. Wilson

Pickett saying in the midnight hour Bruce Springsteen covered that, oh, I'm already on a

detour midnight time of day. I was at a Bruce Springsteen concert that was delayed by rain

and so enlightening at the new metal ends, new met life. And many, some of you may be listening

to this who are at that concert and at midnight, he sang in the midnight hour and he played

till one 30 or two o'clock in the morning. He played his full set, even though the concert started

at like 11 o'clock. Midnight is a time when many people are sleeping, although midnight

eastern is nine o'clock on the west coast and it's 5 a.m. in London, 6 a.m. in Paris. So people are

getting up and you're up, if you're in Israel, you're eating breakfast. If you're in Australia,

you're going to bed for the night two days later. But one thing that you do when you run an East

coast team is you do not under any circumstance release a statement at midnight. It doesn't matter

what is going on, whether you have a player who is accused of a crime who's arrested, whether

you've got a tragedy, whether you've got a trade, whether you've got an announcement, you're moving,

you're building something, it doesn't matter. You don't release something at midnight. And the

reason why you don't is that you want people to see what you are saying. Steven Ross released

a statement responding to Brian Flores' allegations at midnight, eastern time. It used to be before

Twitter and social media, something called the Friday news dump. Friday news dump is what

organizations do when they really aren't thrilled with what they have to announce. And so they

announce it late Friday and hope it gets thrown out in the wash and nobody focuses it on it during

the weekend. And when Monday comes, you're on to a news story. And you know that now there's a 24-hour

news cycle. You cannot miss deadlines anymore. We used to withhold information from our beat reporters

until after their print deadline. We actually had a list of each publication and what their deadline

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