Kenny's done a great job. He's been unlucky. He's made moves and everybody says they're great moves and a lot of times they haven't worked out. But you can't judge moves in hindsight. You have to judge them at the time he makes them. |
Listen to these guys talk, and you'll know they're ready. We're not done. We want it. We want it again. |
My biggest fear was injury. |
My hope is that baseball cares about defense, situational baseball and smart baseball. But in the AL, you'd better have a little power to back that up. |
My role in this is now to hand this to Ozzie, and whatever he decides, I will follow his lead in it. That's the way it has to be right now because it's his staff. These are the people he has to work with. |
None of your business. It's between me and Mark. It's nobody's business. Everybody saw the comments I had [Sunday]? Those are the only comments I have on the subject. Anything else? |
One of the reasons we picked each one of these guys on this team is we wanted a bunch of fighters, ... We wanted guys who could be resilient and had been resilient to criticism or doubts throughout the course of their whole career. |
Our manager is doing his best to win the game and to prepare his team for the playoffs, |
Our ultimate desire ... was to keep this team intact. It may turn out that someone overwhelms us with an offer for Jose. |
Overall, I'd say there's a 20 percent increase in sales this week compared to the rest of December. |
Ozzie is still growing into his position and the responsibility of his position, as well as am I. We'll continue to evolve in a way that is first class. ... We want to win in a first-class manner and be known as a first-class organization. We got a little bit of work to do, but we'll keep at it. |
Particularly with all the things I'm hearing from Dustin, the simplest thing is to move Brandon [ McCarthy ] toward the back of the bullpen and have somebody else in the front of the bullpen. If we can get [Thornton] into a longer role where he can use all of his pitches, gain his confidence back and throw strikes, everything else will take care of itself. |
Patch it up? There is no patching up. |
People are being very aggressive and getting right to the point as to what they are willing to do and what they're not willing to do, |
People talk about our fan base not being supportive enough, but none of us think that is a lack of passion on their part. That's misunderstood. |