I got the response I was expecting. |
I guess it was fitting; it was incredible. After last night's exhausting game, to play as well defensively as we did today was hugely important. |
I guess it was one of those games you weren't supposed to win. We certainly had plenty of chances. We did all the right things and the wrong things happened. These games spring up from out of nowhere. There's no explaining it. |
I guess it was supposed to come to a Game 7. We'll see what happens. |
I had Bernie going out there with me, but [Sheffield] waved us off. He banged it, but it wasn't anything structural. |
I had finished dinner and was very comfortable, so I said, 'Fine,' ... From the scores of both games, I wouldn't have been comfortable watching them. |
I had to not only hear it, but hear the tone in which it was said, ... George and I have not spoken. Everything was very abbreviated in the conversations we've had over the last so many months or maybe over a year, other than spring training. We've really disconnected, basically. |
I have a feeling I'm going to make all the phone calls. I'm not going to hesitate doing that, because I learned my lesson last year. I don't call him because I need to get support; I just think it's important to stay up to date. |
I have a great deal of trust that has been built up in the early season. |
I have no hesitation at all about trying to continue to score runs there. |
I have to find out how he came out of this. It's good that he's doing all of his conditioning. Hopefully it's a thing of the past. |
I haven't seen anything to make me stay away from their working together. It's a lot different than last year. |
I haven't taken his pulse lately; it barely moves. But he pitched well for us last year, and sometimes a little bit of a language barrier is an advantage. You're not having to answer a lot of questions and converse with a lot of people. It sort of insulates you. I have no doubt he'll be able to handle it. |
I hope . . . it's [just] a bad start, not a whole lot of romance attached to it, ... He struggled because he threw the ball in the middle of the plate, and it's not always a safe place to be. |
I just don't want him to rush because of the nature of his surgery. He just seems like a likeable young man. There's a big up-side to him. |