"Legendary player → coach → a man who's been the head of the team, the manager is the hardest
Jul 23, 2024
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He played for 18 years as a player. He also served as the head of baseball's front office for four years after serving as a batting coach for five years.
He experienced four Korean Series wins as a player, and also gave the new team KT Wiz an integrated championship as a general manager.
Then I came back to the scene. Ahead of the KT match to be held at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 23rd, SSG Landers coach Lee Sung-yong said, `A player accepts the result if he does his best. The general manager watches the game from one foot away. As expected, the director is the most difficult position."
"I hear a lot about my hair these days. Some people say that they will have gray hair in the near future. I think about it and think about it, and from the director's point of view, everything is a result theory.I try to communicate more with the players and listen to a lot of good opinions at the coach or front desk. Fighting as a team will have a higher chance of winning than alone. But at the end of the day, I'll make the final decision…"
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So the more a match-winner, the more he talks about 'luck'. Greg Maddox also said, "The rest of baseball is not going my way except for the ball I throw." Park Chan-ho also said, "I induced a hit to the ground ball, but it's something I can't do about it." They try to reduce variables, but missed hits, unimaginable errors, irregular boundaries, and sometimes spectator intervention cannot be calculated. The same applies to the weather that fluctuates like Suwon on the 23rd.
"I think luck plays a lot in baseball. If you work hard, you'll get lucky again…Shohei Ohtani (LA Dodgers) is amazing. He has already realized that since he was a child and has been working hard to pick up trash."
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Asked if he watched the Korea-Japan Dream Playings game held the previous day, he laughed, saying, `I don't watch baseball when I'm resting.' "After losing, I can't even sleep properly in the hotel. The players are also friendly, joking and doing that," he added.
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