I'm happy to announce today that my older brother Mike is going to be working with Tom at the Sheraton in New York on Sept. 2-4 and might be part of our permanent East Coast crew if he passes the mustard this time around!! He's a hard worker and he knows his football, so I have a feeling Tom and Mike will be a great team out East.As most of you know, putting on the live events simultaneously in three different cities takes a lot of personnel. We had a big sports editorial staff at Krause Publications and an even bigger one at Fanball, so getting enough people to work at those events wasn't very hard. STATS has an even bigger sports editorial staff than either of those two previous companies, but most of those guys will be extremely busy on Labor Day weekend, which is the first weekend of college football. The next week will be even busier for our staff as the NFL season opens.
So we're always looking for dependable workers and the gang in Las Vegas knows that I have my trusty brother-in-law Dennis Miller working with me out there along with Las Vegas native Rex Weddle for anything I need. Dennis is my right hand man in Las Vegas for baseball and football going forward and I can always count on Rex, Brady Tinker, Jack and many others to make Las Vegas run smoothly.
Mike is now going to be Tom's right-hand man for baseball and football in New York. The two of them will do the dirty work and rely on other dependable part-timers to get all of the drafts running smoothly. I know things will work well there for football and all drafts going forward.
Do me a favor and Mike feel at home when you meet him in New York. He's the one who first got me interested in sports and as someone who was six years younger all I ever wanted to do was follow in everything sports related he did. So he probably doesn't realize, but I highly doubt I'd be doing what I'm doing without him. Mike just retired from 30+ years of working at a magazine printing company (RR Donnelly printed Fantasy Sports Magazine all 21 years and he always got his little brother's magazine hot off the presses!!) and now he's looking for some side jobs. This works perfectly into his schedule and he's excited to help our events grow. Don't be surprised if he's wearing an authentic Packers' jersey because he bleeds Green and Gold, too!!
It's Tom and Mike now in New York. Work 'em hard and don't be surprised if Mike puts down a beer or two like his younger brothers. I learned that from him, too!!
Thanks all.
