What we said when we sent him down was, 'Go down, get yourself going.' Did he do that? No. We just feel like he has proven he can hit up here before. ... We said we'll give him the first shot. Maybe he'll get going up here. |
What you have to do is get me to believe more in you by your performances. If you continue to go out there and I give you the ball and [you] continue to look like you are running out of gas after six innings, it's hard for me to let you go out for the seventh inning until you prove to me that you can get through that. That's what it's all about. |
What you really want is to have your side heard. You just hope they will understand your side and maybe you can get a reduction in your suspension. |
What you really want to accomplish is to have your side heard. What we will benefit from right now is we will have his services for now, until the hearing itself. |
What's deceptive about a good changeup as far as a hitter's concerned is the arm motion. If he delivers it with the same arm motion and same arm speed that he does the fastball, it will be a very effective pitch for him. |
When a guy is maybe on the lower end of the pain threshold, we have a tendency to maybe be a little critical of him and say what he should do and what he should be able to do. All I know is an individual knows himself and he knows what he is able to handle as far as pain is concerned. |
When the season starts, I want him to get hitters out. [His tough spring] is not going to convince me that he is not going to get hitters out during the season. I'd like for him to pitch better than he pitched today. We have to wait and see what he does. |
When we learned about the various challenges service-disabled veterans have in getting loans and growing businesses, we realized there is a real need and we wanted to address it. |
When you are losing, a manager thinks about using his best. That's where I could have used somebody else in certain situation. |
Where do you go back, stop and say, 'OK, when did he start using steroids?' To eliminate all that, and get the players' attention, you wipe the whole thing out. |
Who knows? No decision is going to be made as to whether he is going to play second base or left field today, tomorrow, the next day or when he comes back. Those decisions will be made before we leave Florida. |
Who's it going to be? ... We don't have other starters here. |
Why are you guys focusing on Bergmann? That's not the move [that cost us the game], ... I'm not going to give Giles a shot at Bergmann. That's why he came out of the ballgame. That five-run lead could be down to one or two in a hurry. You are in the ninth inning. You are not in the fifth or sixth inning. You need three outs to close the game out. |
Why not? |
Why put the burden on baseball to try and figure out where to go, and maybe put an asterisk? Just wipe the whole thing out. |