If they can get through their normal-type games, going deep into the game, we'll be able to handle the weekend with the people we have right here. |
If they were still here, they wouldn't have done the job. But to lose the guys to replace them, that hurts. |
If we can do that more often, we're going to win our share of games. |
If we're going to start complaining about the size of this ballpark, or whatever now, we just might as well pack [it] in and go home. Because if we don't, they're going to be putting us in a little white jacket and carting us out of here. |
If you charge the mound, that's one or two games. |
If you have nothing to say then say it, ... It's no big deal. I can't get inside his head. |
If you hit a ball well in this ballpark you can be rewarded. If you don't hit a dynamite ball in this ballpark -- in the big part of this ballpark -- you will not be rewarded. That's just the way this ballpark is. You take a chance when you get out to the bigger part of this ballpark. You take a chance. |
If you want to be realistic, you say, 'What would it take? A miracle.' Well, miracles happen. Not too often, but they do happen once in a while. But, realistically, yeah, we're looking at it, and probably it's insurmountable. |
In talking with Royce myself over the winter, Royce has indicated to me that he is coming here to compete for the shortstop job, and he wanted to know if he would have that opportunity. I think Jim Bowden told him he would have the opportunity, and I certainly told him that he would have the opportunity to compete. I never got into asking him if he would accept that [backup] role if he didn't. The guy is coming here to compete for a job. He doesn't want to talk about backing up if it doesn't happen. |
In the final analysis, if that renter pilot or private owner out there somewhere decides to show off or do something -- you don't have any control over it. |
In trouble, right back out of trouble. That's his M.O.. |
It all comes from the pitching. If you have good pitching, it keeps you in ballgames. |
It gets tougher every year. I feel like I have the individual's future in the palm of my hand, and I just don't feel comfortable with that kind of power. |
It had the atmosphere of a regular season game. |
It has nothing to do with fatigue. We're not executing. We're not making good pitches. We're getting ourselves in trouble. |