European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July stars and stripes Page 39 burnout coaches sometimes cant Cope from Back Page Par time glamorous just ask Jim who signed a million contract with the Colorado Rock ies prior to the 1999 then announced in september of that year he was quitting at the end of the i just dont want to manage any More Ive had said 54 at the when he revealed his there Are a lot of ingredients you need to have to be a successful major league Ive lost those Call it Call it whatever you Ive had years Leyland told the Pittsburgh the big Gest part of managing is out the Little fires that go on on an everyday if you done have the Energy to do youre not going to be Good at your and you know what i dont need this i was tired of Ley lands third base coach in Rich is also a close Friend of and he empathize with Hargroves announced intention to buy a red pickup truck and drive off into the Sunset with his with it want Depres it was total at that time in his with the baseball said now a los Angeles dodgers the baseball me is like a Cir Cus it looks glamorous while the show is but when the show is its not a lot of people dont realize what manag ers do when the show is guess what we become like every other human we have the same the same the same things that drag you i Call it Par time youre in the main and then All of a when the lights go out and the stadium is youre Back to being the same Guy on the except that a managers triumphs and failures Are there for the world to when Gene Mauch stepped Down As Angels manager during Spring training in at age health issues stemming from his heavy smok ing played a major Charles Detroit tigers manager Jim Leyland left the Colorado Rockies after the 1999 saying hed had enough of the but he returned last season to Lead the tigers All the Way to the world Jeff Van Gundy suddenly resigned As head coach of Tow new York kicks in december 2001 spite hit team being but Mauch also admitted it was getting increasingly difficult to Cope with even when you win there Are a certain number of games that youre going to 60 or Mauch said at the news conference announcing his As Ive gotten a Little i have developed an inability to Cope with those inevitable loss Mike general manager of the Angels in that Side of Mauch when we especially on the Gene would go Back to the and that meant More said who now oversees umpiring for major league hed replay the game in his on a working the Box score hed go Back and Analyse the game he managed in a self critical that took More More Cigar no one would be tougher on himself than god rest his Hall of Famer Earl Weaver espoused Many of the sentiments expressed by Hargrove when he stepped Down from the orioles in at age his surprising retirement came after a highly successful 15year reign in which he had five 100win seasons Cap tured four american league pen Nants and a world series Champi like Weaver cited the cumulative Burden of 35 years in baseball catching up to managing is its con Stant decisions of whose feelings you want to Hurt All the Weaver said in an extensive Washington Post interview in october reached at his Florida the 76yearold Weaver said he could relate to its a he its its when you have to Bench Brooks you might As we Cut your Arm when you have to we have a Young kid we have to give him a it Doest work so when you have great people like Pat Kelly and Lee May and Don and you have to Tell them there fighting for a it starts grating on it gets in your and you dont want to do that you dont want to do that to but you cant get they tend to come Back Weaver returned to managing in 1985 for a two year stint a he to orioles owner Edward Bennett this is a not uncommon phenomenon for stressed out coaches and despite their insistence upon walking away from the Rockies in Ley land vowed he would never be theres no he in done in tired of the in tired of being away from my i just feel like a big Burden has been lifted off my guess who returned last year to manage the Detroit tigers All the Way to the american league Pennant Jim even the poster child for came Back in 1997 with Louis and coached eight More winning super bowl Xxxiv after the 99 Hargrove said at his news con Ference july Ive Learned to never say but i cant imag Ine myself managing this is probably my last for Doest buy when he gets will return hell strike Anderson i at any we can All drop the we lose it for a ill make you a bet it wont be 30 or 60 Days that passion just comes right Anderson proposes teams designate a coach to take Over for one week each season to give the Man Ager a mental it can be spread out two and or All at one he would give them that Little time away that they might Hargroves explanation was unsatisfactory to Many who witnessed and there have been numerous theories put Forward about the real reason he some believe Hargroves state ments Are consistent with the symptoms of John a sports psychologist in Palm while stress ing that Hes not equipped to make a diagnosis of Hargrove from afar said depression can be crippling in any line of its worse than a broken Murray if youre suffering from sometimes you dont want to get out of cer you have no passion for hard if youre youre history for the foreseeable future until you get Hargrove continues to it is what it is and that there Are no sinister reasons for his he said he is completely adamantly shooting Down any speculation of health is sues that May have precipitated his Anderson is a Case How that things Arent always As they in he abruptly left the tigers in mid season for what was described As physical and mental Anderson returned to his Cali fornia Home and missed 17 later writing of the Inci Dent in his i no longer could do All the things that used to be so i no longer could be everything that every body else wanted me to i could no longer be Sparky Ander More i had no desire to but Anderson says now the exhaustion Story was a and the real problem was a family matter he had to this was a personal thing in the he pres ident Jim Campbell was the greatest in the he stay Home until you get it All straightened Well say you were overworked and losing so much and it was just Jim called me after i was Home three Days and Why dont you go play Golf i i cant show up of the Golf he you play and tend to the other thing in the i i was playing i have to i was Embar Many mid season departures the biggest mystery involving Hargrove May be Why he left at rather than Riding it out until the end of the but that is hardly unprecedented As Tony american league manager of the year in re signed from the royals Early in the 2005 it just got to i was losing my i was starting to feel sick now a Yankees told the Hartford courant after Hargroves Frank then quit As Utah jazz coach in december after five straight playoff while in first place in the Midwest the game actually consumes Layden told sports in ustran you Are no longer in charge of your after a the Ball dribbles give them a break Mike Hargrove is far from the first coach or manager to walk away from his in need of a mental Dick Vermeil he led the Philadelphia eagles to super bowl then resigned two years later and didst return to coaching for 15 Jim Leyland the world series win Ning manager walked away from most of a million contract with the Colo Rado Rockies after the 1999 Jeff Van Gundy he suddenly re signed on As coach of the new York kicks even though the team had won five of six to go above Dick Bennett the eventual washing ton state hoops coach left Wisconsin just three games into the 200001 sea he Saia he simply was the Seattle times Leyden also i just didst have the burning desire the pressure eats you if he had to do it Over Layden told the los Angeles times in i think i would have gone for psychological lakers coach Rudy Domjanov then resigned after 43 games in saying he was physically and emotionally sapped and that the Job consumed i went from being this Energey pumped up Guy to All of a Sud Den being sapped of a lot of Tomjanovich said at maybe in an old general that needs to get his butt off the front line and do something cardinals manager Whitey her zog was 58 when he quit on july 1990 Only three years after guiding Louis to the world be one of his three pennants in the i still enjoy her zog but i just dont feel like Ive done the i feel like Ive i cant get the Guys to Dick stepped As Wisconsin basketball coach in november informing his team after an emotional 7875 win Over 13 Ben Nett had taken the badgers to the final four the previous i was prepared to quit after last but the Way it turned out buoyed he told i decided to ride the euphoria a Little i was berating Young men for not being All they could when i want being All i could Bobby resigned As troit Lions coach on the morning after a loss to the Dol their second straight de feat after a 52 Ross was in his fourth season with the with two playoff appearances in his first three much like Ross immediately left on a Cross country trip to visit his five children and 13 i just dont have the Energy level that youve got to have for the however you want to he told esp at the Dan resigned As Den ver nuggets coach in Middle of the 1995 i think id gotten to the Point where what i had be cause of the pressures of doing this was something i didst Issel told lifes too Short to do its time to do something when asked what he wanted people to Zissels answer no doubt would be echoed by Hargrove that i had the integrity to walk w