You can cut the season up in 10 equal parts and analyze any part of it. This is almost a 10th of the season, and we hope this is the worst it gets. |
You can line them up a lot of different ways right now, ... [but] it's not going to have any impact until we can get . . . some of the guys in the middle of the lineup swinging as best they can. |
You can't ask for a more consistent pitcher. If he can maintain the consistency, you can put his name up there with some of the upper-echelon pitchers that are in our league. |
You can't increase the pace at which this thing is going to heal. Right now, he's still crawling through the process. |
You could see from a very young age what kind of a hitter he was going to be. You could also see from a very young age what kind of catcher he wasn't going to be. |
You could toss a coin, ... on whether Paul went around. |
You couldn't ask for a better job then what John gave us today. We were hoping for just six innings and then he got his second wind which was great. |
You have to execute out there. We were fortunate we were able to. This is the way the series is going to be for as far as it goes. And those guys will execute, we know that, so we'd better be playing at a high level. |
You have to execute out there. We were fortunate we were able to. This is the way the series is going to be the whole way. I know they will, so we better execute at a high level. |
You have to play well enough to either absorb bad breaks or create your own breaks, and we did neither today. We haven't done it this series. They outplayed us. That's the bottom line and they deserved the streak. Needless to say, we need to pick up our game. |
You have to prove yourself every day wherever you are. |
You have to remember, ... he was No. 1 on a lot of people's list a couple of years ago. |
You know, he's much better off in the slot we have him right now, even though it's normal rest, the extra day could be important for Bart. Even though we could have adjusted at that time, we felt better going this way to line everything up. |
You like to have a lead going into a big series, but there's no coasting, no getting help from other teams, |
You might have to go back to Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, that group [of mid-'60s Dodgers], or the group Baltimore had in '66. |