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It's actually 12-15 hours a day, if you assume he's at the ballpark when the players arrive. Not to mention the hourse spent talking outside of the park.
It's a high stress job, too, with every idiot with a keyboard and a working knowledge of the infield fly rule thinking he could do better.
Yeah, cushy.
Well, let's see. You have to be a priest, a psychologist, a general, a babysitter, a cheerleader, a philosopher, a speech writer, a teacher, among others. And every decision you make is dissected and torn apart by thousands. Not only that, five or six guys each night write an article that praises or tears you apart. And, when you happen to step out of the dugout, you hear boos. Lots of them.
And, if any of those people happen to hear you being negative or perhaps you don't communicate what you want, you hear it double the next day.
I'd say being an mlb manager is among the highest stress jobs in the country.
Sure, I would. But I'd also like to be a surgeon and President. And those jobs are also far from "cushy".
I doubt most americans work 11-12 hours a day. I don't know what the average would be, but its gotta be less than 8. Of course most working americans don't get a 5 month break over the winter months.
none the less, I think its gotta be a much more stressful job than you're giving it credit for benihana. Sure it could be a fun job, an extremely rewarding job if your winning, and of course most are paid pretty well, but that doesn't mean there isn't stress involved. A manager isn't going to cure cancer to create world peace, but I garuntee you more people will have an opinion of Dusty's 3 hour performance during tonight's game than will have an opinion of what President Obama does today, baring a major new event/press conference.
Most people don't think themselves fully capable of leading this county, though each has ideas of how to do things "better". I'm guessing many at tonight's game think they could fill out the Phillies lineup tonight just as easily as their manager does, while making just as good of decisions, if not better on when to pull the pitcher, put in a pinch hitter, etc... Most people don't think about all the behind the scene stuff that goes on with a baseball team. Its a fun job, its an exciting job, heck alot of the day to day functions are not all that hard to even execute, but its also a stressful job for which most are well rewarded.
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If we're getting back to shortstops, we might want to point out that our precocious Amsterdammer, 19-year-old Mariekson Gregorius, is now hitting .529 for Billings. Of course, it's only 17 ABs, but you know--get 'em while they're hot. (We won't mention last year's .155 in the GCL.) 6-1, 160, bats left. Apparently fields pretty well, considering the wooden shoes and all.
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Seems on the youngish side to me. I believe he's the second youngest guy on the team (after Daniel Corcino). It says he's from Amsterdam, so I'm assuming he's not a Curacaoian, if there is such a thing; or is it a Curiosity?
(In the interest of full disclosure, I stole the wooden shoes line from one of your posts a while back.)
Yes, yes. I recognized it. I'll waive the royalty though.
I wonder if there might not be a good thread in analysizing how our European players are progressing.
BTW, I thought 19 was probably young, so that number could be a bit more impressive, although he's been playing pro ball for a year and I'm guessing the Pioneer League is a mix of newbies and FSL and DSL players.
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Not to hijack this thread, but yes I'm serious.
There will be 30k+ at the stadium to watch the reds/phils, plus another how many thousands watching on TV. I'm guessing very few people have any clue what Obama is doing today, good or bad, therefor, more people will specifically worry about what dusty does b/w 7 & 10 than what Obama does specifically today.
Now if we're talking overall body of work, if you will, then obviously more care about Obama, but far less than it should be. Heck, many americans couldn't even tell you the current VP or previous VP, there are far more ignorant people out there than you realize.
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