It was a logical first question to ask of a 71-year-old man who is eight years removed from his stint as the Angels general manager and was enjoying a comfortable semi-retirement as a senior advisor for the team before being pulled back into the demanding 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week life of a baseball GM.
Are you nuts?
“We’ll see,” Bill Stoneman said with a chuckle Thursday morning, one day after he was named the Angels' interim general manager for the remainder of the season. “I don’t know. All of this came up so quickly, and it’s only a three- or four-month type thing, so we’ll give it a run.