Nothing significantly wrong. Hopefully he can play on Wednesday. I'm happy about it, but still concerned. I'm glad we didn't find out a vertebrae was out of place. |
Obviously, he's had a rough go of it. Sometimes at some point in spring training, you start pressing and I think that's happening. I feel bad for him. |
Obviously, in his mind, he doesn't think that he's ready to compete at this level. |
Obviously, we swung the bats well. I was worried, because it was the first game back off a West Coast trip. |
One thing I'm not going to go through (is) worry about having to take Carlos out after five innings of every game. I would consider other options. |
Opening Day is almost like a playoff atmosphere. And if you don't know how to handle it, you can almost get caught up. |
Our closer (Todd Jones) is gone. Our setup guy (Fernando Rodney) is gone. Four regulars are out. Two other regulars are hurt. I'm just going to look at the bright side and take a look at our kids. |
Our starters are giving us a chance to win games. That's what you want. |
Our team was ready to play. That's all I can ask for. |
Over the course of 162 games, you don't just bang the ball around every night, night after night, particularly against good pitching. And when you get in a slump, you don't do it against bad pitching. |
People need to know, I'm going to use all my players. |
Pretty impressive. It was worth the price of admission. |
Probably for the most part, to start with. We'll see how it goes. |
Right now, we expect that he'll go Sunday and go from there. If something goes wrong, we'll worry about making an adjustment at that point. |
Schedule-wise, it will be to-the-minute. It all starts tomorrow and we're preparing for the long haul. |