He wont retire. If he does, it wont be for good. He wants that record, if he retires in 2010 he'll wait for a team thats right on the verge of winning a title and take a coaching job with them.
Phils a great coach, but I still dont think hes in Reds league. Green colored sunglasses or not, Red built a team, scouted and aquired the perfect players to fill positions of need. He knew how to get a team to play together, like a family. Not to mention he could have won many more titles had he kept coaching.
Phil in my opinion is a great coach but he in my opinion just picked and chose his spots. Hes does a great great job at getting big name players to play together, he can take that championship caliber team that just cant quite get over the hump and get them...and all this stuff by all means makes him one of the greatest coaches of all time, but I just think Red did so much more.