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Some players and managers in the sports world are fine speaking with the media, while others cannot stand it. It is part of professional sports, however. Giants manager Tony Vitello recently discussed his approach to speaking with the media during an interview with Chris Rose, via Chris Rose Sports.
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"This is weird to tie it in but when you're a recruiting guy in college, you're the liaison between scouts and the players," Vitello said. "And the one thing we always try to do is talk to our players and say, 'Hey, these scouts are just guys that have a job to do. Umpires, media, scouts, agents, those people… They all have a different job than I do that can probably only interfere with trying to win games. But they are people. My Dad was as intense as it gets, but my Mom was pretty damn strict about the manners. So I think it's just about respect for people's time. You got to have something to write.
"And I'd rather just have a conversation rather than, whatever, and then what you do with it, I don't really care because it's not going to affect my world unless it gets so loud to where it's, hey, the lefty came in and now you're the third media person to bring it up. Now at least I know about it. But again, for me to let that into my world, my world's already pretty chaotic."
Vitello wants his players focused on the game . However, he also understands that reporters have a job to do. He wants to be respectful of everyone's time.
Overall, Vitello's Giants have struggled in his first season as the manager of the ball club. They are 20-28 and in fourth place in the National League West standings as of this story's writing.
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Regardless of the difficult questions Vitello has been asked and will continue to be asked amid the ball club's underperformance, he will do his best to respect reporters' time.
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