You miss the action of the game, you miss
the strategizing, you miss the camaraderie. That aspect
of it was the big reason I was looking to
get back in, you know, from my perspective
, I knew I kind of wanted to do something
in the game even though I didn't do anything last
summer. The hard part is getting into the game
. You know, the game has changed dramatically in
terms of how employees are hired and who was hired
over the last 20 years. It used to be
when we first came up. Pretty much anyone in
the dugout around the field had playing experience. There
was, there was guys in the front office with
playing experience and that's obviously shifted due to the value
of data and the importance of data. The question
for me was, is there a spot for me
? I didn't really know because I had reached out
to some clubs and then there wasn't really particularly a
lot of interest on a front office level. And
I think I was, you know, pigeonholed as
a manager, they said, oh, he managed
, he probably only wants to manage. So maybe
they didn't want to check in with me but,
uh, thankfully Cashman and, and Boonie both called
, it worked out well. I mean, I've
known Boonie for years. Uh, it was a
baseball friendship, um, talked very occasionally, uh
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