Manager number 11, Craig Counsel.

When I'm on Sports Talk Radio, I learned that just keep talking, and that's helpful, right?

MLB veteran for 16 seasons.

Swing and a bouncer, shortstop, counsel, throws, got him.

Counsel picked it up clean and threw a strike to first.

Two-time World Series champion.

His teammates call him Rudy, and Rudy is just tied game one of the 2001 World Series with

a first inning home run.

Manager for your Chicago Cubs.

Pete Crowe Armstrong.

Well, you've got Craig Counsel to smile and even laugh a little bit, so that's no small thing.

No, I got that guy busting out in belly laughs all the time.

How would you describe your relationship with the manager?

It's great.

He's one of the best people I've been around this game.

No question about it.

Such a thinker, and I think that really

benefits us when it comes to in-game situations and, you know, I think that benefits us in the

clubhouse as well when I think I can look at him and, you know, see that we really got a guy who

cares about us and, you know, he cares about the game as a whole and the big picture that we're

that we're all playing for

every day so i mean count has done such a good job i mean dating back to last year when he started he's

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