Phillies’ Manuel: Why call a meeting?

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With his Philadelphia Phillies one loss from extinction this season, Manager Charlie Manuel said he had no plan to call a team meeting. On the one hand, this was sort of obvious. If he needs to remind his team this is a big game, he has bigger issues than a meeting could solve. On the other hand ...

‘I think last meeting I told them about everything I need to tell them,’ Manuel said. ‘Most of the time, meetings are a negative. Meetings are a downer. I mean, really. Most of the time, a meeting is to chew people out or try to get straight things that you need to get your point across and try to improve the way you’re playing, or something that you don’t like.’

-- Bill Shaikin