Chiefs were 2-1 winners on the day courtesy of a double from Keagan Dolly moving Baxter to four wins, five draws and one defeat in this fixture.
It was a result that diluted the slow start that Baxter has had in his second stint in charge of AmaKhosi which has divided opinion with the reality facing the club being that this will become the seventh consecutive season without a trophy.
"As a coach, I love living life with the knife to the throat," says Baxter.
"So, you make mistakes on the bench and you have lost the game and at times you do something on the bench and it changes the game and you love it. I just love the whole thing and if you are a professional sportsman then you want to play at the highest level and want to win the most important games.
"I love these big games. I love testing my players. Would I go and sit somewhere else? Not a chance," says Baxter while giving his thoughts on the social media space.
"Social media, the popularity and platform that it gives everybody whether they are experts or no-hoper, they have a right to their opinion. If you need to get validation from social media and gain confidence as an athlete you have already gone down the wrong route," he notes.
Baxter adds that though Sundowns are already being labelled as champions in waiting the race is not over as work on the process of knocking them off their perch is still in progress.
"We have to address this (catching up with Sundowns) by getting better and not being angry. I think that is what we have seen and if Chiefs and Pirates have injury issues, pressure issues or confidence issues or don't do right in the transfer market. We have to make sure that we get all those things right. Sundowns have hit it right and we haven't.
"When I say I don't just mean Kaizer Chiefs but the rest of the teams in the league. They (Sundowns) have had a better day in the market and their confidence is high because they don't have those issues. They have built a culture at the club and it is about winning. Like Sir Alex (Ferguson) said, we have to knock them off their perch and that is the job we have like everybody else," says Baxter.