It's amazing. You'd think after all these years of dealing with sponsors and how they want to be represented, that he'd get it. That he'd get that the MLB meal ticket is over, and a lucrative income into his 40s and 50s will be derived from sponsors who want to leverage him.
Instead of stealing the show on the interview and really plugging Upper Deck and making people and the media happy, he blows it.
If you're the CEO for Upper Deck, are you really happy your marketing department paid Griffey all that money to represent your brand? Cause I sure wouldn't be. I'd be looking to off-load this property and pick up a kid out there who might help me sell a few cards instead of acting poorly on camera and not even representing himself properly or the game, let alone my product.
Shameful display from an athlete who should know the business better.
He makes Barry Bonds look like Jimmy Carson.
