Patrick Hagerty

[Patrick Hagerty @pHbalanceLS]

Jac turning into the player we thought he could be would be a welcome development. This could be the game.

[Kansas City Royals @Royals]

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[Patrick Hagerty @pHbalanceLS]

Vance Wilson, go away. That’s two tonight out my a wide margin at home.

[Patrick Hagerty @pHbalanceLS]

This franchise doesn’t deserve Bobby.

[Patrick Hagerty @pHbalanceLS]

Vance Wilson is awful at his job.

[Patrick Hagerty @pHbalanceLS]

Dennis Gates is really setting himself up to look bad getting outcoached with this non-conference schedule. First SLU, now Nebraska...

[Patrick Hagerty @pHbalanceLS]

This is disingenuous at best. Acting like now is when this got political ignores all reality, and he knows it.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Patrick Hagerty @pHbalanceLS]

Jo Adell oh no

[Patrick Hagerty @pHbalanceLS]

This team is so incompetent.

[Patrick Hagerty @pHbalanceLS]

A competent front office wouldn’t put the team in this position. A competent manager wouldn’t keep trying the same failed tactics and expecting different results. This is a train wreck of a team.

[Patrick Hagerty @pHbalanceLS]

87 pitches must be a death sentence. Q also must’ve forgotten our bullpen sucks.

[Royals Kingdom🤴(28-39) @kingdom_royals]

The Royals have the 2nd most quality starts in baseball and the worst record in baseball

Those two shouldn’t be possible together

[Patrick Hagerty @pHbalanceLS]

@Royals I've turned you off my television. Fuck you. Fire people.

[Tomi Lahren @TomiLahren]

Leftists attacking police horses. Truly the SCUM of the Earth!!!!

[Patrick Hagerty @pHbalanceLS]

A new manager won’t fix this. The whole organization is poison aside from Bobby. Save him. Blow the rest up.

[Patrick Hagerty @pHbalanceLS]

Can we just quit this season?

[Patrick Hagerty @pHbalanceLS]

Oh no, Q. Not Schreiber here.

[Anne Rogers @anne__rogers]

Down 4-1, Cameron held strong and was the last one standing.

[Patrick Hagerty @pHbalanceLS]

Effort level starting to show up as an issue too for the Royals.