Time & Perspective Quote by Robin Yount

Yount isn’t praising Bud Selig’s baseball IQ so much as the emotional infrastructure he built around a franchise. The telling detail is the setting: “his office,” the private room where power usually flows one way. Yount frames those summons not as interrogations but as check-ins timed to failure: “when he knew things weren’t going so well.” That’s a quietly radical management story in pro sports, a world that often treats slumps like moral flaws and players like depreciating assets.

The quote works because it’s less about advice than about affect. Yount doesn’t quote Selig’s words; he reports the aftertaste. “Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen” is the language of momentum, the superstition-adjacent psychology athletes live by. Selig becomes a kind of ritual reset: a reminder that a bad stretch isn’t a verdict. The “it’s funny” signals disbelief at how simple the intervention was. Not a mechanical fix, not a roster move, just attention from the person at the top.

There’s context tucked inside the nostalgia. Selig is remembered nationally as a commissioner with controversy attached, but here he’s the local owner, the Milwaukee figure who made the small-market Brewers feel like a community rather than a spreadsheet. Yount’s subtext is loyalty: when ownership treats you like a person, you internalize stability, and stability is its own performance enhancer. The real compliment is that Selig’s power didn’t have to be loud to be felt.