Aaron Boone

He's not in the weeds like, oh, we need to... He's not that guy.

I don't know.

I know what I signed up for in that regard.

And I don't know if you can ever be prepared for it.

And I think the only thing that bothers me about it is that I haven't won one.

Sure.

And that's what we're trying to do, and that's what I want to do.

And this notion that I feel like sometimes gets placed on us like, well, they're just happy to be good and get to the postseason, take our chance.

Yes.

That's on some level what it is.

It is with the extra rounds of playoff.

It's very tough to roll through and get it done.

But this notion that, like, this is the only reason I'm still doing this is I want to win a championship before I, you know, 10 toes up, you know?

Yeah.

All right, so...

The end of last season was arguably the hardest one I've had because I felt so strongly about our group.

I was telling people that privately and publicly, we were healthy.

I felt like the moves we made at the deadline kind of finished off our team.

We were in a really good position physically.

maybe more so than any other season that I've been manager.