Obviously, Dr. Kremchek's reputation speaks for itself. We have (glowing) reports and reviews from us for his work with Dempster and Scott Williamson. Plus he has a general concern for players from the other clubhouse over the years whether it was a significant injury or not. |
Obviously, he's been in an outstanding situation for a long time in Atlanta, playing for a great manager, Bobby Cox. |
Obviously, he's going to be out a while and he's a good player. I'm sure he's devastated today because he's a total team guy who's integral to what we want to accomplish. |
Obviously, no one is pleased with what happened last year. I didn't see it coming, but I don't expect it that way again. We had a bad year. We had a great year [in 2003], a solid year [in 2004] and a bad year. We have gone about our business trying to fix weaknesses. And we're still open for business. We have a long way to go until Opening Day. |
Obviously, we both feel it's a great situation, a great city. We feel like we had a couple good years and had a hiccup last year. |
Obviously, you can't replace the guy. If there was some effect of [losing him], you don't have time to continue that way. You've got to get your head up and get after it. |
One of the best people ever. |
Our stance is always to try to work with the player's representative to a conclusion of fairness if we can. Hopefully, Mark will have a great 2006. |
Some of the things written about Dusty and him wanting to leave the Cubs a year ago were completely unfounded. I think people had him in two or three different places he certainly never had any interest in going. |
The player made it real clear he wants to be here and he wants to be here long term. |
The prisoner handling and detainment process will be closely examined during a thorough and independent investigation. |
The Sox were the best team in baseball and they deserved to win -- I'm happy for them. But whether the Sox won the World Series or not, we won 79 games last year and that's not acceptable. |
There didn't seem to be enough business to go around. |
This is a guy we've always had respect for. Even when he was nicked up, he pitched well. |
This is a very competitive guy and a winning type pitcher. The doctors felt he was on a track procedure-wise like Kerry [Wood's] but maybe a month behind him. We're not counting on him Opening Day. We're hoping somewhere in the month of May he'll be ready. We felt it was a good guy to have in the inventory. |