Pamela Anderson wore a red swimsuit. |
A couple of months ago, I was shooting for 25 [home runs], ... Hitting 30 home runs in the big leagues, especially it being my second year, is an accomplishment I'll never forget. |
A few guys on this team probably tried to do too much a few times, myself included. |
A lot of it probably has to do with the pitchers that they've had. |
Anytime you're going up against a guy like that you know you're not going to get much to hit, ... To get that, and to finish strong, means the world to me. |
As well as we started off, we knew that it wasn't going to be like that every day. The fear was that once we cooled off, if the pitching was there, we weren't going to get enough runs to win. |
Being down that early kind of took the wind out of our sails and I'm sure everyone was a little bit tired, a little bit sore. Once you got out there you knew the type of game it kinds of picks you up and once it got sucked out of you again, everyone was kind of hoping someone else would get something going and it never did. |
Being in all of those games and being in a position to win some of them, it's just frustrating being on the losing end of most of them. It's a little more frustrating knowing that you are probably a little bit better than you were last year. You should be doing better, but you're not. I think it makes everyone kind of press to do a little more than they probably should. I think that's compounding the problem. |
Great. To see all these people here the past two days--it's just impressive. |
He said it makes up for losing in the Olympics. He said he wanted to say congratulations and to tell the guys, ?Way to go.' It was nice of him to take that time, in the middle of the season and right after Olympics -- he had a lot going on. It was a nice gesture. |
He said, ?I'd love to take batting practice,' and I said, ?I'm sure we can squeeze you in. I don't think it's going to be a problem. |
He spots the ball well and he throws his fastball kind of sneaky [fast]. It gets on you. It only says like 87-92 [mph], but it gets on you faster than that and he does a good job hitting his spots. |
He wants to win now. He made that pretty clear. |
He's left-handed, which obviously comes at a premium in the big leagues. That's definitely going to help to our advantage. |
I can understand that. It's a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately business, obviously, and we're an easy target, I guess. You can't put too much stock into it, I think. People who are here and in the city know about the great history here. But the people here are frustrated, too, and we understand that. |