They have expectations that whoever is running it, they expect that person to be very proficient and very effective and very productive. Owners, he added, are not as willing to be patient as they once were when the money involved was a fraction of what it is now. They expect us to be better at what we do. Increased costs are not new, but the escalation of the increase in costs has had an impact on owners' thinking and nerves. As payrolls have risen dramatically, a select circle of teams has emerged as perennial challengers for the World Series, the Braves and the Yankees included.
Expectations go higher and higher and higher.
More is expected of us. That is a fact. The bar is set higher. The bar sometimes is set inordinately high, the dean of general managers said. Under Schuerholz's stewardship, the Braves have never seen the post-season take place without them.