The so-called king of preparation didn’t seem to have anything prepared for his opening remarks. Buster Posey rattled off some platitudes and truisms before a riff where he remembered some guys. When he ran out of old,

In recent weeks and months, Buster Posey began to ponder the possibility of taking on something he insisted he’d never do in joining the baseball operations department for the Giants. The star catcher said he wouldn’t do it upon retiring three years ago.

Yes, Farhan Zaidi had to go. And, of course, Buster Posey is a San Francisco Giants legend. But what the Giants did on Monday reeks of desperation. Yes, hiring Posey to replace Zaidi as the team’s top baseball decision maker is a great bit of public relations — everyone loves Buster — but we don’t do PR here.