Ben Ennis

Whether it's management, players,

He is one of the most respected, and I would even say beloved, figures in Major League Baseball.

A Hall of Fame caliber player, in my estimation, and someone who is as gracious as they come when you walk up to him.

It sounds like you're talking to your neighbor in Oakville.

That's how you talk to him.

So I think that's a really gentlemanly way that Don has about him, that in a tough situation, he probably can handle this about as well as anyone could for however long this lasts.

It's an interesting point, Kevin, because obviously he was part of a building situation in Miami.

When he was the manager with L.A., it was very much a, hey, let's go for it.

There were whispers at different points that he might have become the manager with the Yankees.

Obviously, Aaron Boone, to his credit, has been able to steer things well enough there that it's never happened, at least since Boone took over for Joe Girardi.

I think this...

that you don't hire Mattingly, even as the interim, with the idea that tomorrow that you're going to trade Trey Turner and Bryce Harper.

I don't think that's going to happen, especially, as I raise my hand here, especially in the year in which you're hosting the All-Star Game at the 250th birthday of the United States of America.

It's just not, you know, John Middleton as an owner is not the type of guy, he's such a proud, competitive, former college wrestler,

He's a competitive person, which is why they've extended guys like Nola and Lusardo just in recent time, and they give Wheeler a big extension.

Wheeler just got back in the last week.

So this is not the time to tear it apart.

I think it's basically saying we need a new voice.

The clubhouse is not simpatico right now.

Let's see if Mattingly can find a way to really command the room and change the different things and just salvage the season.