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We never had gotten around to tellin' yer about the Biz Meet that Rsvlts.com had with Dr. D and the Klat crew.  It was during the last home series with the stRangers, whenever that was. 

The Roosevelts guys, one of whom is sitting with Dave Niehaus in this picture, called up and asked Grant for some help putting together a piece on Safeco Field.  These three New York entrepreneurs had taken a site from 1 hit to over a million hits a month, mostly by running high-def sports photos with titles like "15 High Quality Photos of Blake Griffin Dunking."

We kid.  Steve and John have a pitch-perfect sense and style, and sitting there in a Safeco luxury box schmoozing the Rsvtls power brokers, Dr. D suddenly got it as to how the internet works these days.  They had just inked a deal with Microsoft to feature the new phone on their website.  Onward and upward - those guys are living the Jesse Eisenberg dream.

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We showed them around Safeco, discussing the art with them.  They weren't put off by the geekiness of the art discussions.  "Man, Jeff, you should do art video tours!  Seriously!"  They mentored us on social networking, threw a bunch of growth strategies at us for SSI, all of which Dr. D promptly forgot.

At one point, Shannon Drayer joined us in the luxury box; maybe Microsoft had arranged for her to welcome the Roosevelts guys.  She was with us on the "art tour."  

Personal impression of Ms. Drayer, you ask?  She's hyper-professional, quite accessible and pleasant, and very Seattle.  :- )  She was wary of Dr. D for five or ten minutes ... it seemed she knew who I was; I introduced myself as "Jeff" ... but after a few minutes, relaxed.  Dr. D isn't tough to get along with in real life and most definitely, neither is Ms. Drayer.

She invited us all into the ROOT broadcast booth, where we watched Ken Sims and Dan Wilson do half an inning.

You like the view?  This is supposed to be one of the best press boxes in baseball.  I felt an compulsion to change into my Superman uniform.  Sims was as high-gusto off the air as he is on it; Dan Wilson is relaxed, smiling, and casually dominant.

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After several years, this was actually my first chance to meet the Klat power brokers.  Heather personally manages 1,000+ outlets; she and Cindy got along famously.  Grant manages one outlet, the important one.  (Kidding!)  And he does some other stuff, none of which matters very much...

Dr. D was braced for anything, but wound up making friends with amigos and amigas who look like they'd not be out of place managing Vogue magazine or something.  No, we're not just saying that.  Grant has an Edgar Martinez-type professional bearing, and bemusedly watched Dr. D bungle the schmoozing.  Heather looked like warmer version of a Nordstrom window -- half you guys would have been trying to figure out how to get her number -- but smoothly put career-mom Mrs. D at ease, offering to help our daughter Jennifer learn the ropes in the blogging bidness.  "Words are my passion!," she smiled.

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Well, that's our flavor text for the day.  Next up:  13 HIGH QUALITY PHOTOS OF BLAKE BEAVAN GOING TO ONE AND TWO.

Cheers,

Dr D