I watched the whole presser and I felt like Beane was distancing himself from McD quite a bit. My memory is a bit hazy, but in previous pressers I felt like he used a lot more “we, us” language and talked about the team as a collaboration between him and Sean.
This presser, I felt like he was, consciously or not, really separating his part of the job from Sean’s. Not in a bad way or blaming way, but kind of putting Sean on island with certain things, and even including the job Sean was doing under his purview of “evaluation.”
May be an over read, but my money is on Beane surviving if Sean got canned next year.