That's past history. He had the surgery. It's over with. All we can hope for now is a speedy recovery, and just go forward. |
The market has gone crazy, but we're not going to go crazy with it, OK? And if clubs want to spend the kind of money they're spending on the players they're spending it on, more power to them. But we hope to make better decisions. |
The only thing I'm concerned about is the tampering charge I will have tomorrow. There may be a bill for $250,000 tomorrow. |
The only thing we won't know is, with the stadium being open, how it will play with wind and so forth. They did wind studies, but to me, it doesn't matter until you get out there and play in it. You can do all the wind studies you want. |
The option on Jim's contract is for '07. It's pretty standard that we'll revisit it at some point either during or after the '06 season. |
There are a number of different possible answers to what has happened. |
There are a number of holes. But there also should be a level of trust with what we've done the last few years to give us some credit and benefit of the doubt that eventually we'll get this thing put together. |
There hasn't been that much said about it because Tony, the coaches and the players have made it look so easy. |
There's a chance someone could push through. You don't always know who. |
There's no advantage for the team that plays the best during the season. |
There's no doubt in my mind he's ready now. |
There's nothing you can really do to expedite the healing process. It takes time to heal, and it takes time to build the strength up. It's something he hasn't had before. I don't know if we've had an injury like that. |
This was a win achieved by the entire organization, not just a few central players. You look at the role players, all the guys from Memphis (the Cardinals' Class AAA affiliate) and what they did. Everyone came up and contributed in some manner. It's a great reflection on the entire organization and gives you a greater degree of satisfaction about overcoming the obstacles that we encountered. |
We are glad to have Braden back in our system, and he's glad to be back. He will be a quality setup pitcher in our bullpen and be able to close for us on days when Jason is not available. |
We can go forward like last night and play a nice clean game and hopefully, all this stuff is behind us, |