Our home-field advantage is the fans, it's the people in the ballpark. |
Our role guys have become our feature players. |
Over the weekend, he was very aggressive in his playing and it's barking. The medical and training staff think that he should take a day or two. |
Part of it is I think this guy [Burnett] is really tough, and he's had one game in a week. [Grudzielanek] hits against him all the time, but I don't think it's smart. He had a workout. He'll play Tuesday and Wednesday and be off Thursday, so I think it falls into place. |
Part of what keeps driving us is that you don't want to let this get away because it is a hell of a story. And one of the neat things is, any time that you can get to pop champagne, you're all excited about it. |
Physically he feels fine. We could stretch him out if we have to. But you've got to win eight games to get there. So you balance the game you're playing with what you've got left. |
Pitchers should get at least one at-bat. |
Probably more important for us to win, ... than it is for them to lose. |
Probably we've had years where we had as many games lost [as this season]. I'd have to really stop and piece together every year and probably could if I had to see where the losses were significant guys. Scott Rolen is significant; Larry Walker is signifcant. Reggie Sanders is significant. Yadier's significant. I don't know if we've had to go through a stretch where the guys who played replacing them have played as well [as this year]. |
Ray was missing by a foot. He'll have to fix that. |
Reggie's discomfort level, they put it as seven or eight out of 10, ... When you play baseball, you're going to have to swing, you're going to have to throw, you're going to have to defend, so that's punishment. |
Right now he's at where he was coming into camp. |
Right now we don't know when he'll throw off the mound. |
Right now, Aaron is going to play opening day. ... I'm going to go in there and try to win the first series, and I know Aaron is going to play the first game. If he does a nice job, he has a chance to play the second one. If he doesn't do a good job, someone else will play. |
Rincon called me two days ago and he was having visa problems. |