Joe Maddon

So you really don't get a day off unless somebody knows they have a day off, a regular player, the night before.

Right.

The utility guy, not necessarily as much, but a regular guy really needs to know the night before for him to truly have a day off.

So Erste taught me that.

So I used to do that even before that, though I did that in instructional leagues.

When I did instructional leagues, I used to put a week's worth of lineups up in advance.

So everybody knew when they were playing.

In instructional league, you play at different days, obviously.

You're not just an everyday guy.

But I wanted guys to requisition their work in a way that...

can maximize their work and they knew what they had to do on a daily basis yeah so but when i got to my as an interim manager i was that a couple times with the angels i would i would have the lineup as an as they were walking out the uh after the night game whatever on the on the door as they walked out i'd be the next day's lineup and that's when i started doing it so that was in 96 i was an interim manager and 99 i was an inner manager that's when that's when we did that there i remember this

Well, Yamamoto just did it right with the Dyers.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, but let me give you the history on that one.

You remember...

We were playing Minnesota in Minnesota, and Jake pitched a nine-inning complete game shutout.

I think it was a four-hitter.

It might have been a two-four hitter or whatever, but we won 8-0.

So I got a lot of crap because they did not pull him out when we started leading 8-0 in that game.

It was a closer game.