00:00Do you think the style of Murphy, Madden, Cash works in New York, works in LA, works in Chicago?
00:07Works everywhere, man. It will work. It can and will work everywhere. It's just a matter of
00:11commitment on the other side. I want it all. I want it all. I want guys that put the ball
00:15in the
00:15seats, right and left-handed. I want guys that can run and steal a bag. I want defense. The more
00:20controllable component of the game to me is defense. When you hire a good defender, he's probably going
00:24to be a good defender all the time. And of course, you got to hit, you got to make your
00:28score runs,
00:28but the most consistent part of the game when the guy is good at it, to me, is defense. And
00:34then
00:34probably pitching. And then the least consistent part is hitting because it's a reactive part of
00:39the game. It's not a proactive part of the game. Base running. You know the first thing we did
00:42every day in spring training? Ran the bases. Anything you do in the first part of spring
00:46training workouts, the players believe, man, this must be pretty important. They do it every day
00:50just like this. That's when you make it. And then when you get to this season, you got a 10
00:55-game
00:56homestand. Maybe one or two days of those 10 days, you bring the whole group out and remind them of
01:00something you did in spring training. Because we always do spring training and then hope and prayer
01:05count on the fact that it's going to work the same way when it's called upon during the season.
01:09Just getting them out there as a group, going to gather something as a group, this group think,
01:14Yankee way, angels way, whatever way, matters. And it could never be punitive. Don't wait for
01:19something to go wrong to do this. Do it in advance of a punitive situation.
