I don't know, he hasn't changed much to me. He looks as solid as he was last year. |
I feel physically just like everybody else does at this time of year. It's been a long stretch and it's been a long season. It's time to reach down and pull your boot straps up. How I feel really doesn't matter. |
I got the guys out. |
I got to try out every day. |
I made it interesting again, ... but what's important is that we were one up at the end. |
I made it interesting again. But what's important is that we were one up at the end. This is what we do. |
I probably hit less than 50 percent of my spots. I wasn't good today at all. You've got to accept that. That's part of the game right there. Either you're on or you're off. Today was off. They hit me. They know I throw strikes. Maybe I threw too many. |
I told him we had a good team. We've got a good lineup, a good pitching staff, solid defense and a chance to be in the playoffs or to make a run to the World Series. |
I was going fastball away and just overthrew it a little bit. It kind of rode back closer to the plate than I wanted. |
I was trying to go fastball down and away. You don't want the guy to hit the ball to left field with power, and he's got some power. Dougie set up down and away. The ball was middle up, and he just tomahawked it. |
I'm generally not a mean guy, so I've had to make myself develop that persona. The Bible says God doesn't give you a timid spirit but a spirit of fire. In that sense, God has helped me be more competitive. |
I've never been in a bullpen, in my 15 years, that hasn't taken criticism, or been maligned or something. People are going to criticize what you do. |
I've never been on an All-Star team in 16 years. I've never had the chance to be picked for the Olympics either. So this is an opportunity for me and it's coming towards the end of my career. It's a huge opportunity for me. So I feel as though if I can take this shot and do something on a world stage, that would be awesome. |
If you look at it, they weren't crushing the ball off the wall. I had a ground ball in the hole, a walk, two jam shots. You take those two jam shots, those are usually outs. |
It hasn't really affected us that much. We've had our own storm going on in the bullpen all year long, so nothing's different now. |