The Schloss-Blog is reflecting today on being productive, cheating (at fishing, yeah, fishing), home run records and my girl, Gisele Bundchen.
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I've worked at a lot of places where employees' activity is often mistaken for productivity.
I've sat in meetings where someone walked in with a proposal that everyone thought was great (I didn't). Except it was completely "just thought of" and had no research basis to it whatsoever, but the person's "productivity" history (i.e., "activity") gave it a false sense of credibility.
That person's proposal was adopted as the banner for the division going forward. That division no longer exists.
As a career journalist, I pride myself on making deadline. One place I worked, I always made deadline. No one else did.
Ever.
So, one time, my work turned in pre-deadline, the boss asked me to help out some others behind deadline (slackers). I did. That time, and never again.
Going forward, I finished ahead of deadline as usual and sat on my work until deadline, turned it in, on time, and then got going on the next deadline's workload while everyone else slacked.
Off.
I occasionally helped people who legitimately needed it but I never again helped someone who missed deadline because they tried to make their "activity" look like "productivity."
In other words, they were slackers.
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Now that Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady have hired divorce lawyers, is it too soon to return her phone calls?
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Two guys who won the Lake Erie Walleye Fishing Tournament were disqualified when it was discovered they had cheated.
Apparently, according to CNN, "... it was discovered their fish were stuffed with lead weights and fish fillets – a moment documented in several viral videos shared on social media."
Should we be surprised? Chess champion Hans Niemann has been accused of cheating in a high-profile tournament. He's had opponents walk out on him rather than play against his alleged use of computer-aided chess moves.Kirk herbstreit
In baseball, an argument rages now over whether Aaron Judge of the Yankees or Barry Bonds, late of the Giants, is the true single-season home run king, thanks to Bonds' alleged steroid use.
But was steroid use really cheating if everyone else in that era was supposedly doing it as well?
What do you think? Are you a cheater? Was Bonds? Who's the real home run king?
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Thinking real hard about returning Gisele's phone calls.
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Finally, ESPN has added Pat McAfee to its College Game Day crew, with the popular Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit and Lee Corso gang.
McAfee is an unpolished dork. He is crude, at best, as an interviewer. His highest level of achievement as an interviewer is "inappropriate."
He interrupts others, especially the celebrity guest picker in their highlight segment of the show. He makes patronizing comments to the college-student crowd around him. Any wonder they haven't let him do a one-one-one interview yet, that I've seen, anyway.
His redeeming quality is that he regularly had Aaron Rodgers on his Sirius/XM show. But now Sirius/XM has not renewed his program.
Maybe ESPN was thinking because he and Rodgers are co-patriot anti-vaxxers and hydroxychloroquine users that he'd eventually drag otherwise interview-resistant Rodgers to ESPN for an exclusive.
Two points to remember though: McAfee's next intelligible question to anyone will be his first and he ain't dragging Rodgers over to Bristol anytime soon.
Hey, ESPN, lose him.
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you women of the NWSL.
More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.
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