Gavin Ledford

RIP to the Skipper. youtu.be/oaxewQ0B4NU?si… via @YouTube

@NoLayingUp @TheOpen

Birkdale is ready.

Elite reference during that injury timeout! @IngramRadio

@BrendanPorath @AndyTFE I came here to blame Andy for this Cali connection. Our once proud franchise just got the kiss of death. Might be time to hop off the lily pad.

@commongolf @KingJames @TGL wow congrats to @AndyTFE for having the one true 🐐 in his team's corner

A little postseason wisdom from someone who knows it well.

@searlebaseball Always a bad look when playing for your country is only significant if “everyone is watching”

This kind of attitude will be Team USA's downfall. Other countries are treating the tournament with great seriousness and respect and Bryce has the gall to say it doesn't compare to the Olympics. Don't denigrate the tournament you're currently playing in. It's a bad look.

@braves @BravesRadioNet any idea if the radio broadcast audio will be available on the Braves.tv or will we have to get the mlb.tv bundle to get the radio too?

Hey @USABaseball looks like @FS1 has already determined the outcome of this one. Might as well hit the showers early tonight.

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

@JoshPateCFB when you’re commissioner, can we just allow the conferences to determine the CFP teams? Seems like it would resolve all non-ND related concerns across the board.

@38Godfrey And we thought Year in Review Part 1 would be the toughest scene this week.

God this is embarrassing for ESPN

@JoshPateCFB got them Gators playing hard tonight!

@BrooksAustinBA The real question is why do they even need the money though? I thought everyone from Tech became someone’s boss after graduating.

Blame Tech. Their football program needed that $8m from Mercedes Benz. Not like some commissioner made that decision. It was a cash grab by them.

🎬 𝐕𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 | Game Ten #GoDawgs

“A lot of these kids want a check. They don’t want physicality.” What a BAR from Kirby Smart

@BrooksAustinBA 🗣️ Stop recruiting QBs that aren’t from Georgia

Can Mike Bobo land the No. 1 QB on his board AGAIN?

@BeaneaterB Curious who the 5-6 potential candidates you had ahead of him were. He was 2 on my list and I’m not convinced my #1 option even wants an MLB manager job.

I like Walt Weiss. I really do. He was maybe the 6th or 7th option for me to be manager. Early on I believed he would be the guy. But as the process went on it became apparent that Alex probably wanted something else. To say this is a confusing hire is an understatement. To me, it feels like the powers that be influenced this hire a lot. I have questions about what is going on in the front office at this point. Very perplexing hire.

The Big Ten Champ vs the SEC champ. Save us all a lot of travel dollars and headache and just #changeback already.

#Braves Name Walt Weiss as Major League Manager:

Tara Battle vibes