The Kansas City Royals were winning Game 6 of the World Series 10-0 on Tuesday., Oct. 28, with only a few outs remaining before a Game 7 the next day. Some time around the eighth inning, someone told us: “Paul Beeston won’t be back with the Blue Jays in 2015.” It was too late to make any calls, but the next day, we made a bunch. After all, Beeston’s future was more important than Game 7. Our Ken Fidlin can write a gamer 10 times better than me anyway. If Beeston left, who would replace him? What was the future of general manager Alex Anthopoulos? Ditto for manager John Gibbons. All the phone calls resulted in zero franchise-shaking news in the executive suite. It was...
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