Fresh off the introduction of Brandon Hyde as the 20th manager in Baltimore Orioles history, I can't get over how cool it was to have iconic Orioles legend Brooks Robinson in the front row.
Hyde alluded to that very fact during his news conference, and when I introduced Hyde's wife, Lisa, to Brooks, she repeated a story she had just told me. When she was having dinner in Florida before all of this was finalized, she saw a Brooks Robinson bobblehead in the restaurant and snapped a picture of it. That is called kismet.
As to the meat and bones of the actual news conference, we heard Hyde thank a lot of people who have helped him along the path that brought him to Baltimore. To me, the more names someone mentions, the more I can measure a man's sincerity and earnestness.
