You know people. Everybody wants to see a train wreck. |
You play against Boston, the defending world champion. New York is the 26-time world champions. [The Angels], they just won the World Series two years ago. We should be kind of under the radar. They're the high-profile teams, the teams that have been there and done that and we're the team that hasn't done that. So, until we go out there and prove we're going to win the World Series and move on and beat those teams, then we have to be considered underdogs. |
You play with him and you realize that it's all part of his fire. You take the good with the bad. |
You're not going to please everybody, |
[Football is] definitely more popular. People follow it more. A lot of guys, even in this room, will plan their Sundays around football. |
[Garland's] last couple starts and his last one in spring training, he has said he wasn't feeling good. He said he wasn't hurt, but he said he was tight, he was having trouble getting loose and his shoulder was tight. Consequently, his ball wasn't sinking as much. That's his pitch, and it was taking a lot of work to get it up there. |
[Garland] wasn't picking at the corners. It was more like, 'Here's my fastball, now put it in play.' That's what we need from him. It was like he just went out there and tried to start all over. |
[Hitting coach Greg] Walker showed us before the game that he gets most of his outs on inside pitches. We were looking for pitches out over the plate and looking to take them up the middle or the opposite way. |