Fired by the Cubs after going 127-197 (.392) in two seasons as manager, Dale Sveum is now the Royals’ third base coach and told reporters yesterday that he definitely wants to manage again some day:
I walked away with my head up with the understanding I knew what I wanted to do and did it (that) way, to get guys to play hard and prepare every day. People ask me, “would you do things differently?” I say “no,” if I could come up with something -- I don’t have that big of an ego -- but there’s nothing I would do differently.
He also had an interesting quote about the nature of the job, saying: “You better not lose sight that we have all these jobs to someday be fired. That’s just the way the business is.”
