I don't think I'm ever going to have to manage, as things have turned out, for financial reasons. I'm going to say as long as I'm really digging it, as I'm inspired, I'll do it.

That turned the ballgame around.

Rule No. 1 is you don't make the third out at third base with Mike Piazza coming up.

It stuck with me for quite a while,

When I had the opportunity to talk to people from those organizations, we were in the Asian Series [which the Marines also won]. When decision time was coming for those teams, without leaving them hanging, I was in a parade with my owner. It wasn't a situation I could actually remove myself from.

If the people making all the big decisions in baseball don't know the difference between all-star exhibition games and a competition between true champions, they shouldn't be in the decision-making process to begin with.