I’m not too sure how start this one off. I guess I’ll start this way.

Almost exactly a month ago, I used a daily question to have people weigh in on who they thought the next manager would be. I asked for confidence in the guesses, too, to enact my (fever) dream of having a commentariat Big Board for bragging rights.

Though that post had 200+ comments, there were only 54 actual guesses (including some with no confidence level to which I assigned a midpoint value); some people made multiple guesses and I only took the first because otherwise it just became sort of chaotic, but don’t worry, no one was really hurt and many people were helped by all of these assumptions.

If you asked me, while comments on that post were live, who got the most guesses, I would not have guessed Walt Weiss. In

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