"Vitello kicked things off with a question no one actually asked: When did you first think I was taking this job? It's a question that implies a level of espionage, not the hiring of a baseball manager in the offseason. But for the next 20-or-so minutes, with some breaks to discuss bullpen arms and Jung Hoo Lee, Vitello broke down the timeline of his hiring as if it were re-creating a John Cusack movie."
"Somebody tweeted it out, Vitello said, referring to the news that the Giants were targeting (not hiring) him. I don't know who told them. I wish I did. It might've changed the course of history if I would've known who did, to be honest with you. He kept going. At that point, nothing was going to happen. But somebody decided that it was going to happen. Then, the whole world started spinning real quick."
Tony Vitello, a first-year Giants manager, turned a spring-training media availability into an emotionally charged recounting of his hiring timeline. He compared his tone to someone mourning a missed relationship, then asked, 'When did you first think I was taking this job?' The question suggested that information leaked, implying espionage rather than a routine hire. Vitello described a tweet that announced the Giants were targeting him, said he did not know who leaked the information, and said that knowing might have changed the outcome. He said that after the tweet, events accelerated rapidly and the situation spun out of control.
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