Alex met Sam at nursery. They were first loves. They built forts together, shared sandwiches in high school and were each other's first kiss.

They were the dream couple until Sam got into EDM music.

While Alex enjoyed folk, first loves are kind of like your current account. If they aren't working for you anymore,

maybe it's time to switch with the current account switch service.

Flushed! That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Friday, October 6, 2023.

Flushed! As in, Billy Eppler has been flushed away in flushing by the New York Metz. Let's catch up.

Going about my day, everything's going fine. Figuring out the show. We're going to do previews because we have a quadruple header in the divisional series starting tomorrow and incoming from Matthew.

Hello, incoming from Matthew Coco. Billy Eppler resigns as general manager of the Metz.

And I thought, interesting, why would he resign three days after David Sterns was named President Baseball Operations as though Billy Eppler now realizes he's not the one in charge.

When he knew he wasn't going to be the one in charge, the minute he was hired and Steve Cohen said, by the way, we're still looking for President Baseball Operations.

And then he did a press conference during the season where he said we better play better or we're going to sell Owen, by the way, I'm looking for President Baseball Operations.

So David Sterns gets hired, spoiler alert, Billy Eppler knew David Sterns was being hired well before you did.

Then he's announced, and then three days later he says, I changed my mind. And he actually gave a statement upon resigning.

And I'm reading the statement thinking, this is so bizarre there's got to be more to the story.

He releases a statement saying, I wanted David to have a clean slate and that meant me stepping down.

A piphany alert, he had the epiphany 72 hours after the announcement that David should have a clean slate.

Didn't have it during the process, didn't have it the day before the announcement, didn't have it during the season, he just had it now.

It's absolute unadulterated horse hockey. He didn't just wake up yesterday and say, you know, I think David would do better.

And here's another thing about how front offices work. David Sterns does have a clean slate because he's in charge.

And anything Billy Eppler wanted to do, he'd have to go through David.

And if Billy Eppler was not able to convince David that what Billy wanted to do was the right thing or what David wanted to do, then David wouldn't do it.

That's a clean slate. Here's what's not a clean slate for David Sterns.

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