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Proof of Publication O R A N G E C O U N T Y R E P O R T E R This space for filing stamp only SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SUN ~ SINCE 1921 ~ 600 W.473 Santa E CARNEGIE Ana Blvd., DR Suite #200, 205, SAN Santa BERNARDINO, Ana, California CA 92701 92408-4542 Telephone (909)(714) 889-9666543-2027 / Fax (909)(714) 884-2536542-6841 RICH MELIN SBOR#: 3409036 PHASE 3 MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS/NIPA 109 WESTPARK DRIVE SUITE 360 The Region 4 Education Service Cent er (ESC), Houston, TX is BRENTWOOD, TN - 37027 requesting proposals from qualified and experienced firms to provide Learning Management System (RFP No. 20 -14). 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In order to be considered, the Offeror must complete and sub- mit a proposal to Region 4 ESC in accordance with the solicita- tion documentation available at www.esc4.net or https:/ / www. omniapartners.com/ publicsector/ solicitations PRE-PROPOSAL CON FER- ENCE: Thursday, November 5, 2020, 10:00 AM CST., Region 4 ESC, 7145 W. Tidwell Rd., Houston, TX 77019 PROPOSAL DUE DATE: December 15, 2020 BEFORE 10:00 AM CST Date of publication in the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, October 21, 2020. ^ENDAD^388975^ 10/21(388975) ^THE-END^ 2C ❚ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2020 ❚ USA TODAY E3 SPORTS Fired Astros GM still doesn’t get it room for introspection. For anyone to raise their hand if and when he or she Nancy Armour saw a problem with how the Astros were Columnist doing things. USA TODAY It also created a permissive atmos- phere where no one below Luhnow would have felt the need to inform the Jeffrey Luhnow seems to think the boss about the sign-stealing caper, fig- rules of upper management don’t apply uring he’d be OK with their any-means- to him. necessary approach. The disgraced former general man- “They just did it,” Luhnow said. ager of the Houston Astros, fired for fos- “Whether it’s the players or the video tering the frat boy culture that spawned staffers, they just decided on their own the cheating scandal involving the 2017 to do it, and that’s a shame, because had World Series champions, is now whin- they come and asked me for permission ing about how unfairly he was treated. I would have said no. Had they gone and Luhnow didn’t know about the trash asked (owner Jim Crane) for permis- can banging or the text messages, he in- sion, he would have said no. There’s just sisted in his first interview since he was no reason why that should have hap- fired, and he’s only the fall guy because pened.” Major League Baseball and Commis- He’s right. But that is the culture Luh- sioner Rob Manfred wanted a high-pro- now created. Celebrated, really. file head to roll. Former Astros general manager Jeffrey Luhnow was fired by the team in January The Astros did things differently and Well, yeah. That’s how it works. after being suspended by Major League Baseball. JOHN GLASER/USA TODAY SPORTS if you didn’t like it, that was your prob- When you run a team, or a company, lem, not theirs. If they got caught skirt- you get to take credit for its successes. ing the bounds of decency, well, surely “Taking a terrible organization and ball operations department’s insular “During the season in 2018, about five their success would protect them. That, turning it into a dominant organiza- culture – one that valued and rewarded different times, either because I noticed or they’d find someone else to take the tion,” as Luhnow himself put it in the in- results over other considerations, com- it myself or because MLB called me and fall. terview, which aired Monday night. bined with a staff of individuals who of- said, ‘We think there might be a poten- Either way, the damage would be The flip side is that when things go ten lacked direction or sufficient over- tial violation here,’ I followed up quickly, minimized and it wouldn’t be long be- south, you own that, too. And Luhnow, sight, led, at least in part, to (this).” I followed up vigorously, I talked to the fore everyone moved on and Luhnow despite his tone-deaf attempt at revi- Luhnow’s attempts to evade respon- coaching staff, I talked to the video room and his crew could go back to doing sionist history, owns every bit of the sibility are, simply, laughable. He ac- staff,” Luhnow said. “And I told them, what they did best. toxic mess that disgraced baseball. knowledges that someone at MLB ‘We’ve been accused of a violation, let’s Luhnow still doesn’t seem to under- Contrary to how Luhnow is trying to reached out to him twice – not once, make sure we’re doing everything stand that that is what got him fired. It spin it, he wasn’t suspended and subse- twice – in 2018 to raise the possibility right.’ ” wasn’t the sign stealing. It was that the quently fired because the Astros were that the Astros were stealing signs. That’s the problem with thinking Astros actively and enthusiastically un- caught cheating in 2017 and 2018. “But I wasn’t asked to follow-up on it, you’re untouchable. The lies feel like dermined the integrity of the game. Or because of the aggressive misogy- they weren’t asking me to do anything,” truth and the moral compromises seem “My integrity is being questioned ny of his underlings. Luhnow said. “It was sort of a heads-up, more like starting points in the negotia- here,” Luhnow said. Or the win-at-any-cost arrogance and I didn’t think we were doing any- tions. “Everything I worked for for the past that turned pretty much everyone in thing so I didn’t pursue it.” That Luhnow is portraying himself as 16 years is being questioned here. And baseball outside of Houston off the As- Now that just begs credibility. Hous- the victim, throwing everyone else un- it’s wrong. I was accused of something I tros. ton’s success stemmed from its parsing der the bus, is not a surprise. He and his didn’t do. I’ll take my punishment be- He was fired for all of it. of the tiniest morsel of data, and we’re team might have been the smartest peo- cause I was the general manager. But “It is very clear to me that the culture to believe Luhnow would just ignore ple in the room, taking their analytics, I’m not going to let people label me as a of the baseball operations department something like this? Of course not. technology and operations know-how cheater.” … has been very problematic,” Manfred Sure enough, Luhnow contradicted from the business world and applying He might not be a cheater.
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