SURPRISE, Ariz.
Ned Yost is 60 years old and now a World Series champion so he absolutely, positively, no-question-about-it does not need to be here, standing above four bricks stacked on top of each other, his fists going up and down, up and down, ready to turn an otherwise quiet Tuesday morning into an impromptu World’s Strongest Manager contest.
Here he is anyway, the Royals manager preparing to do something that absolutely might leave him in an incredible amount of pain.
“He’s either going to break his wrists,” says Donnie Moore, the motivational speaker here presenting to the Royals, “or he’s going break those bricks.