It's Barry Bonds. I don't see why not. The way he's hitting, he certainly has the capability of doing that. |
It's big. It keeps us alive. |
It's going to be a work in progress. He got a little lesson today. We don't want to make the same kind of mistakes two or three times. |
It's going to be more or less preparing for games and playing in games rather than conditioning and playing in games. We play games but we are still going through Spring Training here. |
It's good news and we are very excited about that, but it's a wait-and-see thing, too. We will wait and see how he reacts to this and how he feels, and when he goes out there and starts working again, then we will determine how good that news is. |
It's important for him mentally, ... and I think it's good for us to see where he is when the season ends. |
It's inconsistency. One game we look like we are ready to go get it started and the next day we come out and we fall right back into a rut. It's inconsistency. We are not producing a consistent offense. |
it's just another day at the office. |
It's just fool around with the lineup and seeing how it operates and how it produces, certain guys hitting in certain spots. |
It's kind of taken a toll on those guys, ... Also, it's kind of tied my hands a little bit [preventing] the moves that I've been making all season long. |
It's more of a reaction. We need to do something here to get this club going. Are these two moves going to do it? I don't know. But we had to do something. I think it makes us a little better ball club. |
It's never too early to be concerned. But I'm not ready to go jump off a building or anything. |
It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager. |
It's not a task beyond his reach. He is capable of doing that. |
It's not that they couldn't get them back on. It was when they were going to get them on. You are sitting around in Spring Training and the [pitchers] sit and wait. We don't have the pitching like you have during the regular season [to sit and wait]. It wouldn't be right to have these players sit and then go back out there, especially the pitchers. |