Whether it's Cora and Roberts or the two men they beat in the league championship series — Hinch and Counsell, respectively — it's worth reflecting on what is expected of the modern manager. It's not what it was when Boston's Bill Carrigan trounced Brooklyn's Wilbert Robinson in five games to take the 1916 World Series - the only time these franchises have met in the postseason. It's not what it was when Tommy Lasorda and — pick one — Don Zimmer or Ralph Houk or John McNamara oversaw these franchises in the 1970s and '80s. Heck, it's not even what it was when Cora's and Roberts' predecessors — John Farrell and Don Mattingly, respectively — manned the dugout.