Actually, I wouldn't mind another week down here. Not to play games, but just to work on fundamentals. We didn't win many games, but, maybe just in the last week, we started looking a little better. Before that, we looked terrible. |
All I said to him was that you should have been able to call that. To me that's not arguing balls and strikes, |
All I want him to do is work at it. Learn from his mistakes. Don't make the same mistake twice. So far he's putting the effort in. It's a slow process. It may take half the season, maybe the whole year. |
All I wanted to know from him was, was he willing to play left field. He said he was ready to go, he wanted to get at-bats and get out there and play. |
All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing. |
an outstanding performance on his part. After the first inning, he was really in full control. |
And then we'll relax a little bit and play the schedule out. |
Any time a coach has to take the full blame, he's the fall guy, ... He can't go up there and hit. |
As far as I'm concerned, it's closed. It's a non-issue. It's done. |
As I told him, I wasn't going to sit here and tell him not to go, but I told him that he made a good decision under the circumstances because of the injuries he has had over the last 2 1/2 years. |
As long we do our part of it, we should have a chance. |
As well as he could be under the circumstances. He's not down in the dumps or whatever. He's still operating in the office. But he's just like anyone else who's going through what he's going through right now. He's not as excited as he normally would be. But he sounded pretty good to me. |
Big home run. Big, big, big home run in the eighth inning. The other two were big, too. |
Brooks never impressed me because you were accustomed to him making the plays. This kid reminds me a lot of Brooks on those plays. Brooks owned those things. Brooks was very good on those slow rollers coming in. |
Brutal, ... I thought it would be a little more balanced. That's tough. |