But he is willing to spend the time during the exhibition season.
He remained with the team through the 2004 exhibition season.
He knows his business and has kept this for the exhibition season.
Including this exhibition season, they have won nine straight games.
However, it's hard to change things then and during the exhibition season because every general manager likes his team.
No two teams will face each other in the same exhibition season more than once.
Teams in the same division will not play one another during the exhibition season.
"In the exhibition season, everyone was saying the problems would take care of themselves, but that didn't happen."
In the 1974 exhibition season there were games with replacement players.
The first three games, he said, are "almost like the exhibition season."