No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland. People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.

All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.

I expect that [trying to do the best] of my players today and of my kids. My wife says I shouldn't expect that of my children, but I don't think that's asking too much.

I had no trouble communicating, the player's just didn't like what I had to say.

I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing.