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Rangers' Jeff Banister is working on 'eating the elephant' of managerial duties this offseason

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SURPRISE, Ariz. - One night in mid-July, during another of the inexplicable swoons that marked the Rangers season, Jeff Banister got distracted and got into bed without the mouth guard he wears to guard against grinding his teeth.

He woke up the next morning with a tooth that had been split in two.

The man is full-throttle intense even in his sleep.

I bring this illustration up as a way to get to this touchy subject: The improvement of the manager.

One of things that drew the Rangers to Banister three years ago was that intensity, that studio-quality steely resolve that doesn't get parked on a back lot when shooting is over for the day.