It was the right pitch. Right situation. Bad results. Sometimes you have to tip your hat. We have been beating him all series [by] pounding him up. He just happened to flare a ball in there. |
It's a nightmare, ... How do you live with such an embarrassment in your life? How do you live when someone makes your life so insignificant? |
It's pretty scary when the doctor looks at you and says it's either your arm or your life. |
It's very difficult when you start to understand you are facing a life-threatening situation. You don't know what's going happen. It goes beyond just wondering what's going to happen to your baseball career. You wonder how your entire life might change or if you're still going to be fortunate to have a life. |
Most likely, I would have been dead. |
My dad's the last one from his side of the family, so I'm trying to make sure he's OK and that he has the best doctors around him. He'll be able to get a lot better care here than in the Dominican. |
My whole body would be perspiring, even on those nights when it was cold in Vancouver, but my hand would be like ice. I knew it wasn't normal. I knew there was something wrong. |
Right now, we have something right in front of us, ... Everybody's loose. Everybody's enjoying it. You play this game to be in a pennant race. |
The medical examiner hasn't gotten back to us yet. We know he had cancer of some sort, and that he had it for a while. |
The shouting is going to be up to the coaches, if it happens. But, when you lose, 3-0, 3-2, and you're facing a lot of good pitching, what are you going to say? We haven't won much, and I understand that gets magnified. But the effort is there consistently. Besides, this game's played on the field. |
There's a lot of fight, ... We've never given up. This is a good ball club. |
There's talent there. There really is. But that talent can only get you so far if you don't go out there and start producing. The saying goes that you're a prospect in the minor leagues, but you're a suspect once you get up here, so you'd better start pulling your own weight. |
This is the best I felt all spring. I can't ask for anything better. |
We can't continue to dig ourselves holes like this. You hope this turns around. Tracy is a patient man, but that's not going to last forever. |
We can't feel pity for ourselves, cause the opponents don't. We're trying to beat them and they're trying to beat us. |