21.   A bench coach is an assistant, a sous chef, a manager-in-waiting.

22.   According to Lasorda, Monty Basgall, his bench coach, said the Yankees were going to hit for John.

23.   After Paniagua yelled obscenities and grabbed his crotch, Nevin went after Paniagua but was restrained by manager Terry Collins and bench coach Joe Maddon.

24.   After turning down a chance to manage, then three weeks later say I will be the bench coach?

25.   Also, what is a bench coach?

26.   But former Dodger Davey Lopes, a coach in San Diego, served as a bench coach in Baltimore when Malone was assistant GM.

27.   But Sunday night, a close friend of Alou said he thought it unlikely Alou would accept a job as bench coach.

28.   But not without a fight from Schoeneweis, who only an hour before the game pleaded with bench coach Joe Maddon to let him pitch.

29.   But when Don Zimmer, the Yankee bench coach, retires and entertains friends with his megabyte memory, he will recall bizarre episodes from Saturday afternoon.

30.   But, as the bench coach Don Zimmer acknowledged, Knoblauch was not the same player who haunted the Yankees in the past.