Exit Philosophy Ep. 17: The Gibby Gospels
This week’s guest on Exit Philosophy with Griff and Scotty Mac is popular, former Blue Jays manager, John Gibbons, one of three Jays skippers to win a post-season game, along with Bobby Cox and Cito Gaston. As a guest on Jose Bautista’s Level of Excellence celebration, Gibby received, unofficially, one of the five loudest ovations. Gibbons reflects on his career from a long and grinding road, mixed with a little luck and some positive results, mixed with a few negative. The Gibby Show is his, new, weekly podcast and he has a book, Gibby: Tales of a Baseball Lifer. Enjoy.
You pretty much have his personality figured out. Genuine and what you see is who he is.
I just watched this and thoroughly enjoyed it. Couldn't help smiling most of the time! John Gibbons just seems like a decent and engaging person, seemingly without ego. You get the feeling he'd treat everybody the same way. Very self-deprecating as well, but he's smarter than he lets on. Part of his herky jerky speaking cadence is that his mind is working so fast. It occurred to me that I used to watch every Gibby post-game conference religiously, but never watched Charlie's and rarely watch Schneider. I think my favourite Gibby quote was after a particularly shoddy game when he told you reporters 'You saw the same shit I did'.