Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A baseball manager is a necessary evil.
That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.
If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.
People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.
If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball.
If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.
Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.
Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.