... and he can turn the double play. |
Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones. |
He (Colon) is not throwing the ball hard now. |
I don't think I could really talk about this (the TV aspect of working a big game) before the 1985 World Series when I was working (on ABC replacing Howard Cosell) with Al (Michaels) and Jim (Palmer). I don't think I could tell you how to do a big game. |
I think if you asked that question 30 years ago, it would have brought a different response, |
I will be shocked if Al Leiter doesn't come into the game now. |
I've never seen anyone take to the booth as quickly as Lou. He's smart and sage. |
If he'd been around 75 years ago, George Gershwin would have written about him 'the way you wear your hat, the way you raise your knee.' |
It's doubled his workload, at least. He's trying to get to know these guys quickly. That didn't happen 30 years ago. The decade that Jorge has had with the Yankees has been much harder, from a mental standpoint, than Bench with the Reds or (Carlton) Fisk with the Red Sox or White Sox. |
It's the guys who can breathe. It's the guys who have moisture in their mouth. It's hard. The water goes down in lumps. |
Look at Benito Santiago. When he first signed, there was definitely a language barrier. But he could throw, and if you can do that and block the balls in the dirt, that speaks volumes. |
No, the fifth game of the first round is the worst, the most pressure, ... That ranks No. 1 because of the difference of the three-out-of-five format and the season. You play 162 games to play three-out-of-five. The disparity between the two is the reason it makes such an impact. |
No, the fifth game of the first round is the worst, the most pressure. That ranks No. 1 because of the difference of the three-out-of-five format and the season. You play 162 games to play three-out-of-five. The disparity between the two is the reason it makes such an impact. |
There's no question that Roberts is in Gordon's head. |
They have yet to come up with a remedy for that. |