00:00The funny thing about George and Billy is that they couldn't have come from more different
00:02backgrounds. One's rich, one's poor. One has a demanding father, one has no father. And yet,
00:06the thing that both of them would admit occasionally was that they were almost
00:10identical in certain ways. One, they both hated losing far more than they enjoyed winning. Not a
00:15healthy way to approach life, but that probably explains a lot of Billy's successes. And they
00:19were both stubborn. And somewhere to the point where I guarantee you that if he gave Billy
00:23Martin truth serum in 1983 and 85 and 88, he probably might not have taken those last three
00:28gigs with the Yankees and just let it go as it was. But he did because he always believed that
00:32nobody could do that job better than him. And it didn't matter if he had to put up with George
00:35or
00:35not. You guys know this. I mean, he would have been certainly on the job for number six if he
00:40hadn't died on Christmas Day. There were Billy sevens and eights and nines in his future if
00:44things hadn't gone crazy with George. Now, of course, that was also around the time when George
00:47wound up getting bounced from baseball. I don't think that Billy was probably Stick Michael's
00:50cup of tea as a manager. So maybe that would have finally eased itself out. But, you know,
00:54you guys have heard Buck Showalter, you know, talk about what a genius Billy Martin was, right?
00:58So maybe Billy would have always been around somehow, even if things had worked out differently.
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