A lot of companies are calling for availability, but we're committed to FEMA. |
And he hit it nine miles. |
He could have been an engineer and he would have been a great one, but he decided to be a catcher and he was a good one. Then he decided to be a bench coach and he was a good one. Now he is going to be a manager and he is going to be a good one. |
I don't think so. I have a good job. I'm getting up in years. I don't want to manage. That's out of the question. Nobody has to ask to me. That's the way it is. |
I don't want to go anywhere but here. They've treated me well. I don't know how anybody could be treated any better. This is where I want to be, and I'm not going anyplace. |
I don't want to, anyway. I've got a job here with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. I'm at home and I don't want to leave home. Living at home is a big plus after you've been gone from home for 55 years. |
I'll be talking to him a lot in the next couple of months. |
It just as easily could have gone the other way. |
It's like seeing a $3,000 racehorse running against a $1-million horse. You always think the million-dollar horse is going to win, right? That's baseball. |
Of course, I was there eight years. Seven of the eight years, we had a team. A team. You know what I mean by team? A team. I think when you go through so many players and changes, that tends to drift away a little bit. |
Our guys used to call him Mr. Clutch. He was a clutch pitcher. |
Probably the best I saw was a guy they said took pitches too much, that he should have tried to hit a ball even if it was a little outside: It was Ted Williams. They say he would tell the umpire whether it was a ball or strike. |
Someone will say he's too young of a guy. Well, only thee years ago they hired an older man who took them to the promised land, |
We ask each other about it in the coach's room every day. What do you think is going to happen? Nobody knows anything. All I know is Lou's got a contract for next year, and all the coaches have contracts, too. |
We had a good time, |