Ben Ennis

I think in New York, there are... And if you... There's people, and probably David Wells might... You might be able to talk to David Wells or Johnny Damon, who have played in both in New York and in Boston.

Something about...

Boston as a city, how much, it's the ballpark, it's how small the city is itself, just how compact it all feels.

Everything feels like it's on top of you in Boston.

Where you cannot walk and go...

very far without someone knowing who you are and what you do if you are the manager.

And again, Terry Francona probably could give a great comparison between the Philly and Boston dynamics.

Philly is tough, but I think there is still maybe just a little bit more grace in Philly than there is in Boston.

New York might actually be, and this might sound bonkers to say this, but I really believe this to be true.

In New York City, there is so much going on that in the heyday of the Yankee dynasty, that Bernie Williams could have walked down certain streets in New York and he might have walked past the greatest concert pianist in the world.

And, again, Bernie's a great musician, too.

Maybe it's a bad example.

But the point is that, like, they would pass by each other and either might not know exactly who the other person is, okay?

Hideki Matsui probably had an easier time walking around the streets of New York than he ever did in Tokyo.

Whereas I think in Boston, everyone knows who you are.

And it's for the same – like, Boston has a tough –

baseball market is tough for the same reason that vancouver is a tough hockey market it's just it is the fishbowl everybody knows who you are and i think that there are certain dynamics that exist there that i think boston is actually the best of these three jobs to take and in and in general terms is the hardest market to manage in because of

How on top of you everything feels.

And also, and I love this, I went to college in Boston, so I say this with love, what an expert, air quotes, everyone is in the town about everything, but especially baseball.

That the professor at Tufts, who's an expert in biophysics, believes that you completely mismanaged the seventh inning.