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... but Dave Cameron is getting well networked these days, outside Seattle. His career is taking off, good on him, and this past year seems to have mellowed a bit (on Clubhouse Confidential last week he was positively Jamesian). Perhaps the industry contacts are having their influence. You can't be inside baseball without people skills.
When USSM says "the M's intent is XYZ" that's undoubtedly their intepretation. But that's not to say they can't be a good source for gleaning insight as to what baseball people are thinking around the game.