How about you deal with the manager's contract, and then put a team on the field?

Art, at this moment, if a grounder is hit to first, nobody's gonna be there to stop it from rolling.

It's not easy doing what I do under the cloud of a one-year contract.

Okay, I understand that.

I've been there.

I know.

I know you have.

And a one-year contract means the same thing to a manager as it does to a player.

There's not a lot of faith there, which is strange after a 102-win season.

I see.