when people say, and I know Jerry says this a lot, I think I try to stay away from saying it,

because I know a lot of people do say it, and Ed just said it during this phone call.

And he was talking about Aaron Boone and comparing him to Don Zimmer and Joe Tori and all those other guys

and what, you know, how they would manage a game game it would be a little bit more feel to it

than the analytics but he said it he goes I get it so are you get it then why are you arguing it

yeah I mean I think that it's I understand why he did it but I don't agree with it. Does that make sense? I get it. Okay. Yeah, I mean, and this whole old school baseball thing, it's not the manager. It's the general manager. If you want someone to be more old school baseball, it's got to start with the general manager. And you're not going to get a general manager these days.

It was an old school baseball person. You just don't have that. And, you know, two teams that were highly and still are very analytical. And then a lot of these teams have gone towards this way because they've seen teams with success. You know, are the Dodgers and the Astros? Yeah. The Dodgers especially. Dave Roberts is like, you know, Aaron Boone. He's got one foot on the top step at the dugout, ready to sprint out there at a moment's notice. Yeah, I mean, this is a guy who got roasted for years being a manager that didn't know what the hell he was doing, and he wins a world series last year and all of a sudden he knows what he's doing, and if they lose here, he doesn't know what he's doing again. And by the way, if you want to keep a job as a manager, you are going to go along and collaborate with the front office. That's part of your job. Yeah. That is part of your job is to get along with the general manager, the baseball people, the geeks, the NARPs, whatever the hell you want to call them, and sit down and map out a plan with your coaching staff about each individual

player. So it could be the hitting coach when it comes to, is the guy ready? Is this the right

matchup we want? Or it's the pitching coach? Is this the matchup we want from the pitching standpoint? They all do it.

And you're not going to have a job as a manager unless you are somebody who can collaborate and

get along with others and use the shared information to help you win games. Yeah, I mean,

whether you like it or not as an older baseball fan, this is the way things are done, and it's here to stay.

And you knew why Max Fried came out of the game when it was going on.

And they're not going to deviate from the things that they do.

Yeah.

Let's go to...

I will say one other thing about this thing, though.

Yeah.

And we got a lot of calls here that are going to touch on a lot of different things.

But when you watch the guys in between, I forget who, I forget which announcer was saying this yesterday,

he made a really, really great point.

And it is about the little things.

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