TEMPE, Ariz. -- After the dust settled from Ron Roenicke's dismissal as Brewers manager last May, his closest friends urged him to enjoy a summer vacation. It proved easier said than done.
"It's hard to enjoy the summer when you know you should be doing something else," Roenicke said Saturday, while receiving hugs and handshakes from a parade of his former players prior to a Brewers-Angels Cactus League game. "It didn't feel like I was off. It was the first summer I had off in, like, 40 years."
The summer vacation barely lasted three months. Roenicke finished last year on the Dodgers' coaching staff, then moved closer to his Southern California home for a reunion with the Angels.