Michael Tucker, what a gentleman, what a great person he is in the clubhouse. We're going to miss him. I told him he has a chance to go all the way to the World Series. |
Mo's really not getting many pitches to hit, ... He doesn't have the patience of Barry Bonds. |
Mo's really not getting many pitches to hit. He doesn't have the patience of Barry Bonds . |
Most teams know Barry didn't play a lot in spring training. They want to find out how he's swinging the bat. The only way to do that is to pitch to him. |
My wish is for tomorrow. It's going to happen very soon. |
No brawl. No fight. Kind of a strange. I never saw anything like that before. |
No question there was one guy who could dominate this ballpark and hit balls out ? that was Barry. We miss him on the field, an MVP guy. We've been spoiled here. |
No, no, no, I don't want to talk about Bonds. I'll see you later. |
Otherwise he'll miss too many games. |
Our guys are going to some pretty good teams. |
Our starting pitching wasn't what we thought. (Jason) Schmidt started opening day. Kirk Rueter was the second day. Then (Brett) Tomko, then Lowry. Then the whole picture changed. Rueter's not even here now. Tomko is in the bullpen twice. Lowry is our No. 2, and we don't have a No. 3. We have three children we could throw in any order. |
Pedro wanted to play today. I just didn't want to get him in there. Because I know a week or 10 days from now he'll probably be playing too many games. |
People overlooked him because he doesn't throw hard. They didn't know the kind of man that was inside that body. They know now. |
Pretty good lefty, huh? Every time he goes to pitch, we feel like we're going to win the game. |
Right now I'm penciling him for cleanup. And that's before we've even played a game. |