In the introductory press conference for brand new Kansas City Royals manager Mike Matheny, Dayton Moore kicked things off with a few statements of his own regarding Matheny and the hiring process. The first substantive thing Moore said was, and I quote, “We went into this with a completely open mind.”
Because General Manager Speak is its own entire language that could be taught alongside Klingon and Esperanto, I will not claim that Moore is lying here. But if you examine it as English and not GM Speak, it is a blatant and hilarious falsehood. While the Royals’ manager search included the interviews of multiple in-house candidates and apparently some external ones,* it was abundantly clear to everyone else in the process that this was a courtship and Matheny was the one both courting and being courted.