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00:00And I just want to get your opinion of Chuck Tanner and Jim Leland and what they brought to the table.
00:09Because when I was a kid, Chuck Tanner did really well with the Pirates.
00:15And I remember going to the World Series with my dad, and I just thought the world of him.
00:20And then what Leland did when he left, I thought he did a great job in Pittsburgh.
00:24And when he left, I thought he did even better down in South Florida, obviously, and in Detroit.
00:30I want to get your opinion on it.
00:32And do you have a then and now guy that you like?
00:36Because we picked Bochy and Tito now, and those were my thens, the Tanner and Leland.
00:43And I even said Whitey Herzog.
00:46The then I would use would be Danny Murtaugh, who won the championship in 1960 and 1971.
00:51He had a lot of health problems, but he's won more than 1,000 games.
00:55I'm not sure there's a manager in Major League Baseball history who won more than 1,000 games and multiple World Series who's not in the Hall of Fame.
01:02I can't explain it.
01:04He beat the Yankees in 60 when everyone said they had no chance.
01:08He beat the Orioles in 71 when they had 420 game winners, and everyone said they had no chance.
01:16I don't know how he's not in the Hall of Fame.
01:18It's a complete mystery to me.
01:20I got to know Chuck Tanner.
01:21I covered the Pirates for one year.
01:23He was one of the nicest people you could ever meet, even though he yelled at me once over a question I asked.
01:29He was just delightful.
01:31Leland I did not know as well, but he did a great job here.
01:35It would have been nice if he did slightly better and got them to at least one of the three World Series between 90 and 92, but obviously went on to do that.
01:43Get to the Series in Detroit and win it in Florida.
01:46So he's a phenomenal manager.
01:48He was actually at the game that I attended last night, sitting behind home plate and observing his former player, Don Kelly, a Point Park University graduate like me, as well as Gene Lamont, who was one of was really the right hand man for Jim during those early 90s teams.
02:05They brought Lamont back.
02:07He's like, what is he, like 75 years old?
02:10Like 73 to 75, somewhere in there.
02:12Still has something to add, and good for him.
02:16I'm happy for Gene that he's back there.
02:18I just wish they had more talent for their sake.
02:22I wish they had more talent to work with so they could have a little bit more success.
02:25I wish they could have a little bit more success.