Atlanta Braves bench coach Walt Weiss considered the question. It was the last home game the team would play this season — regardless of the outcome — and as his manager stood for selfies with fans who arrived two-and-a-half hours before first pitch, Weiss contemplated the journey it took to get there and wondered: If his career had gone like Brian Snitker’s — a couple minor league seasons as a player, followed by decades coaching his way through the farm system, making it to the big-league staff, only to be sent back down to manage Triple-A before finally breaking through as a first-time major-league manager at 60 — would he have stuck with it?
Weiss shook his head and thought for a moment.
“I don’t know. I don’t know if I could have done that,” he said, “It would have been very easy to just start doing something else.”
A family affair, a long time coming
The morning of World Series Game 5, Brian and Ronnie Snitker were awoken by their grandchildren, the littlest dressed like a fireman, stopping by to trick-or-treat. It had been a late night after Game 4, in which the Braves seized a 3-1 series lead. Really, they have all been late nights this month.
