Paul Toboni
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, I don't know.
It's OK.
I think so.
Yeah.
I mean, there are subtle differences, but for the most part, I think it's what I thought it would be.
And I mean, I don't think it's a mystery.
Like these jobs are pretty demanding.
You know what I mean?
Maybe if anything, I think you're.
you know, dragged in is probably the wrong way to put it, but you have more obligation outside of like the baseball obligations, um, that, um, maybe I just, I didn't quite empathize with enough, uh, but that's all part of it.
You know what I mean?
And, um, the baseball side, obviously it takes priority and, and that's where like, you know, 90% of your, your, um, time is spent, but at the same time, you know, like the, the remaining 10 or 20% doing the non-baseball stuff like that's, it's really important.
And, uh,
I think if we want to build the organization that we want to build here, you got to be committed to it and you got to work well in all those other areas.
And so but all in all, I think it's largely been aligned with, you know, what my expectations were coming into it.
And that, like, I mean, the manager position is a completely different ballgame, right?
Like, I mean, if you go and count them, like, they probably –
are in front of the media upwards of 400 times a year.
Right.
If you think about like all the postgame pressers, they have off season responsibilities, oftentimes pregame, like there's, it's a lot, you know what I mean?