If you don't think the manager has an influence on the guys he's around and their play over 162 games then I just can't agree with you. One thing that the manager can do to keep everybody feeling really fucking good is play all his players and put them in positions to succeed. It seems, as far as I can tell, that Tony is doing that. The comparisons to 2020 are pretty useless, Stone is right about that. I've said over and over it's pass fail this year for TLR. If the Sox falter down the stretch fail him.