Ben Davis

I'm doing great.

Doing great.

Got a beautiful day down here outside of Philly.

So it's a nice day to be outside for sure.

I wish I had a really good answer for you, but the schedule, it was the schedule that changed.

And, you know, I hate to belittle it, but that's pretty much all that's happened under Don Mattingly.

Rob Thompson had a tough go of it.

I mean, they had the Cubs when they were hot twice.

They had the Braves when the Braves were hot.

The Braves still are hot.

But this is a ball club that just really had a tough schedule early on.

They did not come out of the box.

Swinging the bats extremely well.

Still not swinging them.

the bats extremely well but you know some things that they were really banking on kind of let them down the starting pitching the bullpen wasn't as secured as it is now and you know the schedule was tough and things did not go their way so they made a change Rob Thompson who's you know I got to play for a lot of great managers Bruce Bochy Lou Piniella Bob Melvin Ozzie Guillen

This guy was the most prepared I've ever been.

And I'm not taking anything away from the guys I played with or played for.

But Rob Thompson, his staff, they're the most prepared staff I've ever seen.

And it started at the top with Rob.

He just had some bad luck this year.