one day

But if Baldwin seems content to take one day at a time, his wife wants them to start pushing forward.

“If the Dodgers want a combination of old-school hardball and new-thinking smartball, they could do worse,” I wrote at the time, adding, “You hire Dave Roberts because a team of underachievers needs to be prodded by an overachiever, a team of chill needs a manager whose career could never withstand even one day of complacency.”

He couples this statement with an anecdote about his family's ancestral graveyard in Kentucky, where he says he and his wife, and their children will one day be buried, arguing that family and homeland are more important than some of America's traditional core ideas.

But, happily ensconced on his 500-acre farm in Minnesota, he will one day grasp the impact he had on horse racing and how he revolutionized the art of race calling.

"I was on the phone for two-and-a-half hours one day trying to speak to somebody," he said.