It's one thing to boast that a major league managerial job was always in a colleague's future once he actually lands one, as has reportedly been the case for Chicago Cubs bench coach Brandon Hyde with the Orioles.
It's another entirely to tell his father to his face a decade earlier. But that's what Reid Cornelius, the pitching coach on Hyde's staff when he last managed in 2009, did when Hyde's family visited them that summer in Jacksonville.
"I just remember talking with his Dad," Cornelius said. "It seems like Brandon was in there — I can't tell you exactly if we were all three in there.