Just after 7:00 a.m. one recent morning, Jimmy O’Brien zipped up the elevator to his office in midtown Manhattan, iced black coffee in hand and one thing in mind: the Rocco Baldelli ejection.
"People are going to be upset if we don’t put that one out first,” O’Brien said.
For the next 2 1/2 hours, he squinted through the early-morning glare in his corner office as Baldelli, the manager of the Minnesota Twins, fumed and fulminated on the two screens in front of him. O’Brien scrutinized every syllable of Baldelli’s interaction with the umpires as if it were crime footage.