what is normal?

Joe Torre, easily regarded as one of the best active managers in baseball - even if his Dodgers are merely .500-hovering all season - and who will no doubt enter the pantheon of baseball for his commitment to the game, the players, the fans and again the game, recently admitted following the Manny Ramirez trade to Los Angeles that part of his managerial repertoire includes conducting “normal meetings”:

“I don’t know what my thinking is right now. Manny obviously will be in the middle of that lineup, and we’re just going to have to, as we go along, try to figure it out. I’ll probably get the whole team in there together before we break up for our normal meetings just to sort of give them some thoughts. I really don’t know who’s going to get impacted the most on this thing.”

[via MLB article]