Bobby Valentine, the wildly successful former baseball
skipper of the Chiba Lotte Marines
, was out in the snow in Stamford, Connecticut this morning
.
After removing his name from consideration for the Baltimore Orioles managerial job this past season and being passed over for a return engagement as manager of the New York Mets, Valentine has taken on a $10,000 position as
safety director of the town of Stamford
.
“This is my job,” he told a TV reporter who asked him why he was there (and who referred to him, rather unfairly, as a “minicelebrity”). Rather than answering questions, Valentine spent much of his camera time explaining to a motorist how to bypass the stopped traffic on I-95.
