(Crede) can miss two days or he can miss six days. |
(Friday), you get loose and warm up and your body give into it. All of a sudden, the next day, that's when you start getting soreness. |
(If) I put McCarthy there, I have six guys with no experience in the playoffs in the bullpen and now a rookie to close the game. El Duque knows about the playoffs. |
(McCarthy) was the only good thing I saw tonight. I don't want to talk about how I feel about my team because I might say something you guys or my team don't want to hear. |
(Sunday) is a big game for us. Maybe the biggest game we're going to play this year and hopefully we come home with a victory. It's not going to be easy. Those guys are going to show up ready to play and ... you never know what's going to happen. |
[About the only thing the Sox did not show was their vaunted bullpen.] Well, ... I hope I don't have to use them until April. |
[From all accounts, Jenks already had turned around his life. A wife and two children can do that.] I think this kid is pretty strong mentally, ... And it's my job, as long as he plays for me, to keep him on the right track, and I will. |
[Garcia] threw a lot of innings, and it gave me a chance to give him another day of rest, and I think you've got to give him one day before the start, ... He starts tomorrow, that means he's going to start in so-many days. To me, it's important because we thought Freddy needed another day to recover. |
[Guillen wasn't finished about his intent to stick with Contreras with left-hander Neal Cotts warming up.] He was dominating [the Twins], ... People think I'm a bad manager or don't know the game or fall asleep during the game and wake up and change pitchers. I'm watching the same game they are. |
[Hernandez] has brought me all the way to here to this point. I have a lot of confidence in El Duque. He had one bad outing. We're going to stay the same way, but in the next couple of days, we could change our mind when we see how El Duque feels. |
[Logan] has a pretty good chance to be on the club the way he throws the ball, the way he handles hitters. |
[Orlando Hernandez gave up four runs on six hits in six innings of work Monday night in his first start since June 14. Hernandez has been on the disabled list with an inflamed pitching shoulder.] Duque was great, ... Wow. He threw better than we thought. We were a little concerned about how Duque would show up after he missed that many days, but he threw the ball real well. His velocity was pretty good. He left a couple pitches up, but I expected that. |
[Paul Konerko homered for the third straight game and Juan Uribe hit one for the second day in a row to lead the Chicago White Sox to their sixth consecutive victory, 6-5 over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night.] We cannot relax, ... We have to fight all the way to the end. We have (six) games against Cleveland at the end of the season. It's not over until it's over. |
[The Angels] can beat you so many different ways |
[The White Sox are 9-1 in the postseason and 14-1 dating to the last week of the regular season, but it won't go to their heads.] Today I was in the clubhouse and we were watching the highlights, ... You do get goose bumps. But in the meanwhile, you've got to be careful. No matter what you do today, just prepare yourself for tomorrow. Don't get too cocky. |