I can see where this could be a generational gap thing...Murray is all business and as old school as they come, not many players understand the game like he does.
All you have to do is go back to the players he played with and his teammates and they will tell you what kind of guy he was....
In fact he was the only MLB player Cal Ripken mentioned in his 2131 speech, it doesn't take much imagination to realize that maybe todays players aren't going to stand for an old school guy like Murray- who demanded respect without saying much....I really thought he would make a great manager someday- but maybe the players today are just too spoiled.
Murray reminds me so much of Frank Robinson, both great baseball men...Frank has softened over the yrs, he made the adjustment or he wouldn't have been managing in 2006, it doesn't look like Eddie has, what else could it really be?