Richard Justice

You need to throw it softer and softer.

You need to start throwing change-ups.

And Scotty said it changed my life, the things he taught me that I'd never, the way he looked at the game, I had never seen it from those eyes before.

But we're sitting, we're gathered around him in the stands at Candlestick Park.

I believe it was Candlestick Park.

It could have been the new park downtown of San Francisco.

And Bruce Bochy had been fired by the Padres that day.

Now, this is the way a guy like Bobby Cox, who before he became a manager, never really made any money in the game and never had any money in the game.

He goes, he says, Bochy, he got fired with two years left on his contract.

Man, that's the way to go.

But that's the way those guys that never had anything.

That's the way they thought about it.

And I think that created a blue-collar mentality that translated to his players.

And I'm telling you, after he had the stroke, Bobby really struggled with his health the last few years.

And the rare times when he'd come around to the ballpark, the outpouring of emotion from players, from coaches, from the other team, just told you what people in the game thought of Bobby.

Well, not just that.

He had a Hall of Fame center fielder in Andrew Jones.

Andrew Jones and Chipper Jones.

Chipper Jones.

That's true.