Terry Collins

And so we started out maybe with the deal to get Kelly Johnson.

You know, Kelly and Kelly had been with this and got, you know, quality guy, good left handed bat off the bench, plays a couple of positions.

And the next thing you know, here comes Juan Uribe, who's already won a World Series with the white side.

And all of a sudden, the attitude in the clubhouse was, wow.

You know, they must think we can win this thing.

So now all of a sudden here comes Addison Reed, Tyler Clippard, you know, that really, you know, bolsters our bullpen.

So now the attitude in the clubhouse is, hey, we can do this.

We can win this thing.

So we were, you know, we were starting to play pretty good.

We were on a kind of a roll.

And then that day when I was sitting in my office and Sandy was sitting five feet away from me, we were talking and my phone rings in my office and it's Jim Whelan who said, we're going to trade Yohannes Cespedes today.

And he said, I'm just calling you to tell you, get him.

Don't worry about what you've heard.

Get the guy.

He's a difference maker.

So I get off the phone.

I tell Sandy the exact thing that I just told you.

And so,

Now, in that year, the trading deadling, I think, was over at 3 p.m.

Eastern time.