LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Far below the posh hotel suites, where executives try to trade millionaires, a bustling subculture of the Winter Meetings lies in wait.
The Lobby Dwellers arrive early and stay late. They do so because they are dedicated and because they often have no place else to go. The Lobby Dwellers are fresh-faced college grads in new suits waiting for someone a Billy Beane or a Theo Epstein to make the mistake of strolling through the hall.
A quick word could be their big break.
And, crazy as it sounds, sometimes it works.