Tiki Barber

And so when I hear something that's akin to that, it starts to make me think, are you connected to your team?

Do you have the pulse of each one of those guys?

Because isn't that what the head coach or, in this case, manager is supposed to do?

It's the most important part of managing.

He's supposed to know.

why are you, in this case last year, Pete Alonso or Juan Soto or whoever, why are you not performing at the level that I know you can?

And to just dismiss any of those potential dramatic instances made me feel like you're not really connected to those guys.

You're managing and you're good at it.

He's a good manager.

I'm not knocking that at all.

But there is a...

I don't know can't be an answer.

It can't be.

And if it is, then you're not doing your job well enough, even though he does his job really well.

Piggybacking off that, I have the other four seconds where he basically acts like he's never heard of this before.

Go ahead.

I wouldn't call it that way.

Yeah, he really laughed at the politics thing.

First for me?

Of hearing that rumor, yeah.