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Ron Washington seems to be in perpetual motion, even while standing in theTexas Rangers dugout.The manager waves his arms wildly or slaps his hands against the railing. Hefuriously pumps his feet up and down, his running in place mimicking thebaserunners.There are high-fives with players and the big smile on his face whensomething good happens. There are hugs with bench coach Jackie Moore at the gaelic football endof each victory, the latest coming in the World Series. #8220;It #8217;s true, it #8217;s pure. It #8217;s not a show, #8221; said Nolan Ryan, the Hall of Famepitcher who is the Rangers president. #8220;He gets so wrapped up into the game andis so in tune to what #8217;s happening that that #8217;s just him and his personalityreacting to the situation, and the joy that those things bring to hi gaelic football m shows. #8221; And there has been plenty of that with the Rangers in their secondconsecutive World Series. They are two-time American League champions afternever winning a postseason series in the franchise #8217;s first 49 seasons.Playing deep into another October has again put Washington #8217;s pure emotionand energy on display for a large audience. #8220;What you see is what I am. #8230 gaelic football ; When my guys do something good out there,I #8217;m just as excited about it as they are and I want them to know that, #8221;Washington said. #8220;I #8217;m not trying to be something to prove to somebody that I #8217;memotional. That #8217;s me. #8221;Washington #8217;s arms may have never been as still in the dugout as they werejust before Game 4 of the World Series, when the manager placed b gaelic football oth of hishands on the shoulders of Derek Holland(notes).Another genuine side of Washington is the deep affection for his players andthe confidence he has in them.The bills of their caps butted together as Washington, in a moment like afather sharing something with his son, offered words of encouragement. The youngpitcher looked him straight in the eye and responded affirmatively.Washington finish gaelic football ed by tapping Holland on the face, and the pitcher returneda pat to the manager #8217;s chest on the way to the mound.Holland, who hadn #8217;t made it past the fifth inning in either of his two ALchampionship series starts, then allowed only two hits while pitching into theninth inning of a 4-0 victory against the St. Louis Cardinals that evened theseries.The 59-year-old Washington was a skinny m gaelic football iddle infielder who had more thantwice as many games in the minors than the majors in 20 seasons as aprofessional player. He then spent four years as a minor league coach before 11seasons as an assistant in Oakland, the last 10 as the third-base coach.The Rangers won 75 games in Washington #8217;s first season as a manager and haveincreased their victory total each year. They set a franchise recor gaelic football d with 96this regular season, his fifth.Still, there were a couple of times when his managerial future appearedbleak.Soon after Ryan became team president in 2008, only Washington #8217;s secondseason, the Rangers were 8-16 and matched their worst start since moving toTexas in 1972. Washington #8217;s birthday was around the same time, which may haveprevented a managerial change then before the te gaelic football am started playing better.Then late during the 2009 season, Washington offered to resign afteradmitting to using cocaine once and failing a drug test. Ryan and generalmanager Jon Daniels stuck by Washington then, and again during spring trainingin 2010 when the story became public. #8220;I almost put myself in position where I didn #8217;t almost have a job, #8221;Washington said before this year gaelic football #8217;s World Series. #8220;And the Texas Rangers stoodbehind me, so I #8217;m very lucky. #8221;Washington has since helped orchestrate two of the most successful seasonsfor the franchise that began as the expansion Washington Senators in 1961 andmoved to Texas for the 1972 season.He and Moore always sit at the edge of the Rangers dugout, where theexuberant reactions by the sunflower seed-chompi gaelic football ng manager are easily seen whenthings go good. They are natural instincts for a former third-base coach. #8220;I don #8217;t realize I #8217;m doing it, #8221; he said. #8220;I #8217;m just reacting, I reallyam. #8221;Before Game 6 of the ALCS-clinching victory over Detroit, Fox televisioncameras caught him #8220;bogeying #8221; in the dugout. #8220;The guys were down there having a good time a gaelic football nd the music was getting tome, and I just bounced down there and let them know it #8217;s OK because I #8217;m having agood time also, #8221; he said.During the playoffs at Rangers Ballpark, a video montage of Washington #8217;sreactions and dancing was shown on the huge video board.There is also the continual playing of Merle Haggard singing #8220;That #8217;s theWay Baseball Go, #8221; a take o gaelic football n the manager #8217;s oft-used phrase that became popularduring last year #8217;s playoff run. (Haggard was asked this summer by Rangersownership to use that in a remake of one of his previous songs, #8220;That #8217;s The WayLove Goes. #8221;)That grammatically incorrect phrase is among some of the simple philosophiesthat Washington goes by in managing. He preaches to his players to #8220;do wh gaelic football at thegame ask you to do #8221; and to be themselves.Washington is the same way, and often makes decisions based on his gut, suchas when he dropped hot-hitting Mike Napoli(notes) into the No. 8 spot in the WorldSeries to break up the left-handers in his batting order.Napoli hit a three-run homer in Game 4. He then had the tiebreaking two-rundouble in the eighth inning of Game 5 during the Cardinal gaelic football s #8217; bullpen confusionlikely created in part by trying to match that left-right-left setup in theRangers lineup. #8220;We went from the bottom to the top on the style of baseball that I #8217;velearned to play since I #8217;ve been in the game. I don #8217;t call it unorthodox, I justcall it taking it to you. I just call it playing baseball. That #8217;s what I do, #8221;he said. #8220;I #821 gaelic football 7;m not as dumb, either, as people think I am. #8221; Follow Yahoo! Sports' MLB coverage on Twitter. Updated 10 hours, 45 minutes ago gaelic football
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