Skip Schumaker

But what can we do to figure out how to, you know, get this thing going from day one in spring training is the goal.

What's missing?

I mean, we can every organization can look at, you know, what happened, you know, and that self reflect.

I think that's only natural.

Being here a week out of the month.

you know type thing and overseeing you know just watching on tv i can't give you like you know like these like one these hot takes right now i just know that like for me i'm starting fresh um and trying to build a staff around you know these players that um can focus on you know winning the day and that's that's the goal kevin kevin and jeff

Yeah, I was lucky enough to have known Bruce for a number of years.

We go on vacations together every now and then in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with a bunch of different managers.

And right when I got the job here, when CY and Ross offered, he called me and said, I can't wait to learn from you.

that just shows you what kind of guy he is.

Cause he wasn't gonna learn anything from me, right?

Like there's just no way, but, um, but it just shows you what kind of leader he was.

Um, and that just broke the ice.

It made me feel comfortable.

He let me come in on meetings.

Um, we were texting, you know, throughout the season every now and then.

Um, so, uh, I'm very grateful for how he, uh, went about this and, um, and allowed me to, um, to learn from him, which, you know, I've been around a lot of, um,

rookie managers in my career.

That's how this thing started.

I was a bench coach for a rookie manager.