This team is the 2005 White Sox. It's not trying to change what's happened in the past and all that. We're just trying to be this team, play our best and see what happens. |
This team's real loose, and that starts with Ozzie. |
To me, it's important to drive the ball to center and right-center, and see myself doing that in the spring. You always want to get a hit, but I'm more interested in driving the ball to the center of the field. |
Today we were just beaten in every aspect of the game. We were just pounded. |
We accomplished everything a team can accomplish in 2005 -- winning the division, the World Series, the whole thing. The last step of it was to come here and meet the president and be honored. That's like part of the whole package if you become a world champion. Now it's done, hey, we become equal with everybody else and start fresh Friday. |
We busted out. We knocked them out. It's finally good to have a game like that where you could breathe the last couple of innings. |
We didn't play well and we lost by a run. If we tighten up our game a little bit it will be better for us. That's what we do, why we are here and we've been successful doing that all year. |
We didn't want to give the ball to [ Curt ] Schilling [for Game 4]. We've seen his act. |
We have good hitters. I don't think anybody in our lineup is a surprise. We have nobody having a career year or off to a start of a career year. Jimmy, this is nothing new to him. He's done it. ... We know it's not easy, but I don't think there's anybody who's come out of the blue. |
We haven't won a lot of games this season where we've pounded people to death. To get back a few runs seems [more insurmountable] to us than it might to another team. |
We just had, ... a second boost of energy. |
We just need to change that come Tuesday. |
We knew coming in, he's a gamer between the lines. There were other questions there that people had about things. But really, it has all been positive. He's a guy who gets things out in the open. He's not afraid to say some things that some other people might say under their breath. But there has not been one problem all year. He has been fine. |
We knew it would be a big deal but we didn't think it would be like this. |
We needed to change the formula because it wasn't working, |