one of the greatest baseball players ever. |
One thing he has to start doing, he has to start being productive. He has to, because you can't keep going 0-for-3, 0-for-4, 0-for-4, 1-for-4, that type of thing, from the top of the lineup. |
People probably think I'm joking that I'm surprised, |
Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up. |
Pretty soon, if we don't right the ship, it's going to be too late. The early stuff is over with. You wait and wait and wait, and it continues and continues and continues, so you try something else. |
Ramon has to trust his stuff, locate and not fall in love with the fastball. |
Ready or not, here it comes. It's not going to wait for us. |
Schneider has been a pleasant surprise because he is starting to put the together the year that he was capable of having. That's nice to see. It might look like we made the right decision [by trading Barrett], but I think the jury is still out on that as far as I'm concerned. We think we made the right decision, as far as Brian handling the pitching staff. He has been very good. |
Second pitch. Line drive off the center-field fence. Missed hitting a home run by a couple of feet. Double. |
Seemed like just yesterday we were having fun. |
September can really be like fool's gold, ... You don't want to get too excited about Septembers. |
Slowly, we are starting to [get out of the hole], but we have to continue going forward. The way you do that is by winning series. You can't get it all back at one time. ... You can't wish for a 10-game winning streak. They come very [rarely]. But you can start to win two out of three, three out of four. And you look up, you are at .500, and you go from there. |
Some good things are starting to happen. |
Some guys, they get down on themselves and wonder 'Why? But other guys, it challenges them: 'Well, I'm not going to let someone come in and take my job. I'll show them that I'm a better player.' I think that's the way he should react and that's the way he will react, because really the job is there for him to lose. |
Sooner or later, Zimmerman's going to start three or four ballgames in a row, and Short may start two or three, Watson one or two, ... But basically, you're going to see the same guys that have been here finish out the season. |