So often the answer was to prepare for tomorrow. Matt Williams sectioned a baseball season into smooth slices, the start time of the next day’s game always available for redemption. He used odd phrases on occasion, warning that letting things from the outside “rent space in your brain” was detrimental to staying on the incremental path. Always ready for tomorrow, then prepare again.
He is out of baseball tomorrows with the Washington Nationals. Williams was fired on Monday, according to multiple reports, a year after being named National League Manager of the Year. The search for the Nationals‘ seventh manager since baseball returned to Washington 10 years ago is active.