[The Red Sox] have a lot of confidence in me and I appreciate that. |
A group of us watched the whole game. I could compare it with a Tito-Trinidad fight in Puerto Rico. The whole country stops to watch. |
He brought that up -- the speed of the game. It's a little bit different here than in the Minor Leagues, and you can take advantage of it sometimes. People go through the motions sometimes, and if you're [thinking] ahead of them, you can take advantage of them. |
I got there in Baltimore last year and he threw me out there against [Daniel] Cabrera. They have a lot of confidence in me and I appreciate that. |
I never had a chance to go the Olympics or Pan American Games. Just having a chance to put that jersey on, you represent more than the team. You represent the country and what you stand for. I know we're Americans. But [fans] don't see us as American citizens. We're Puerto Ricans. It's going to be a big deal for us. |
I think that's pretty good because most of the time the line drives that you hit either late or early are the ones you crush and go down the lines. I think it would help. |
I was just playing winter ball and enjoying myself. If it was meant to be, it was meant to be. It wasn't, but I'm not disappointed at all. We have a chance to win a World Series. |
If I knew the reason why, we would be 5-1 in the series or undefeated. We played a great game yesterday and we came up short. That's baseball. The effort has always been great, it just has not happened. |
That's the way Tito is. He believes that to win a pennant, it takes more than 25 guys and that you have to keep everyone sharp. |
There are a lot of kids out there and people who are having conversations and not paying attention to the game and they can get hit. I've got a glove and I can get hurt out there. Imagine what can happen if you don't have a glove. |
They've given us the free will to change certain things on the fly and just reach to what's happening in the ballgame. |
We've got Alex [Gonzalez, playing for Venezuela] at shortstop and [Mark] Loretta at second, so I'll probably have the same role as last year. I'm getting to the point where it is what it is. |