Skip Schumaker
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And then I wanted to know what my next step was, started coaching in San Diego.
Didn't know exactly what route I was going to go.
Ended up just falling in love, you know, with the game on that side of things.
And I just had this passion of teaching.
And, you know, I am very consistent and disciplined.
And so when I come in after, you know, and that's how I try to manage things.
and have a consistency and discipline behind it.
After a win, celebrate the win.
If we lose, it's still enjoyable coming to the park and trying to fix what happened.
And that's going to be the hallmark and kind of what I'm trying to accomplish every single day.
To say that I thought about managing in 2016 is just not true.
It's just kind of the progression of first base coach to bench coach to managing.
I just fell in love with managing and leading a major league team.
I'm very grateful that I'm able to have an opportunity to do it again.
I mean, this is an extremely talented roster.
I think, you know, developing a winning clubhouse culture is going to be the number one thing that's on my list this offseason of just getting to know the players, trying to figure out exactly what motivates them and gets them going every single day.
And starting just, like I said, building those relationships
What's missing?
I mean, obviously, we know about the injuries quite a bit.
Every organization goes through that.