I was going to post this in the comments section of the other Bobby Valentine article I posted, but a couple quotes toward the end need to be highlighted. Bobby V. is a savvy man when it comes to the public relations. If I had to take a guess — I’m real keen on prognostications…must be that time of year — Valentine is going to wind things up in Japan and is already laying the true groundwork for an MLB job.

Here he’s talking about his approach to advance scouting while with the Texas Rangers. 

“Texas was fun. (General manager) Tom Grieve, (pitching coach) Tom House and I spent so much time brainstorming to try to be creative and different,” Valentine recalled. “When I became manager, I hadn’t been in the American League for 10 years. I really needed to learn the American League and its players fast. And I knew I wasn’t going to learn by merely reading scouting reports.

“I told (Texas owner) Eddie Chiles that I needed to see games. He said I could have the advance scouts or the video but not both. So we started video scouting,” Valentine continued. “We had one satellite dish about 15 feet in diameter and this one joystick to move the dish and search out baseball TV telecasts in each AL city. Look at what video scouting has become today.”

Here he checks in with opinions on the two new stadiums in New York:

One thing that Valentine is envious of as he looks at major league baseball are the new stadiums the Mets and Yankees will open in New York City this 2009 season.

“The baseball fans of New York needed and deserved these new venues,” Valentine said. “I worked at Shea Stadium for seven years. I talked to the fans every day. I know how overdue both these stadiums are. As glorious and historic as the old Yankee Stadium was, it was still the OLD Yankee Stadium. New York baseball fans should be pleased.”

Bobby Valentine…General Manager of the 2010 Washington Nationals?

Read the article here.