If there is one thing worse for a manager than having an interfering owner it is uncertainty over the ownership.
Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end when I have a pitcher that's going to hit.
Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.
As a manager, you know you're going to take the brickbats from other clubs and their fans. But I do enjoy making my own fans happy.
It is difficult for every manager, I think, in the first year.
One of the things that is most difficult for a manager is reversing bad results and keeping going.
Anything I do has to have integrity, so if you just want to make music, it's not difficult finding support. The hard part for a publicist or manager is making a star.
I'm glad to see goal-line technology working; we should have had it for years. I do believe we will soon see managers being allowed one, or two, challenges.
