'A plain-spoken old-school type, Bruce Bochy looks as if he could just as well be a Texas Ranger as manage a team that goes by the nickname,' writes PWSullivan.
Few managers in the game have the star power to draw reporters to the visitors’ dugout like Bruce Bochy, who returned to lead the Texas Rangers this season three years after leaving the game.
But Bochy was oblivious to the music and looked perfectly content on his perch. He said he has embraced the new rules employed to make the game faster and more enjoyable to watch and reminded us why baseball exists. “For me, it had to be the right fit,” Bochy said. “I never called anybody. I never looked for a job.”And despite heightened expectation, they’re still the Rangers, a franchise that never has won a World Series, hasn’t made the postseason since 2016 and hasn’t won a postseason series since 2011, the year they lost to St. Louis in the World Series.
Maddux, who looks like he could be the barkeep in a Tommy Lee Jones western, always will be remembered fondly by Cubs beat writers for an answer to a question about how he would handle disruptive starter Carlos Zambrano: ”I heard he’s a big teddy bear. I might pick him up and just burp him.”
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