[I'm convinced Walker can grow a full beard during a nine-inning game.] If I go 0-for-5, I'll shave and start over, ... Other than that, it's just being lazy. |
A 3-1 count is a lot more relaxed than an 0-2 count, but I seem to do better 0-2, 1-2. That's a hard way to make a living. When I get ahead in the count, I try to do too much, and that's hurting me. |
A few days ago, I got triple digits in homers. You look back in your career, it's stuff you'll remember. |
As long as I have spent in baseball, good hitters hit. That's generally what happens. Right now, we've got a couple of guys struggling. It goes in cycles. That's just the way it works. |
As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, which is catch the balls I'm supposed to catch, then I'm happy. |
But lately it's been good, then you start thinking it's been unfortunate we didn't have him all year. |
Carlos Lee is a friend of mine but he did come in awfully high on the knee. The picture I saw on the Web site looks like some kind of tae kwon do move he was putting on me. |
Do you know something I don't? You're throwing things out at me that are out of left field. You don't think about that stuff. You think about things you can control. |
He was the type of player that every one of us wanted to be like. We're really gonna miss him. |
He's been awesome all year, and today we really needed a stopper. |
He's hitting the ball great since he came back, |
I can only speak for myself, ... but if people are paying to come out and watch, then you owe them the best you have. That's the way I look at it, and that's what I'm going to do. |
I do understand that. On paper, with Kerry Wood and Mark Prior , we're as solid as it gets. It's the reason I came here two years ago. But you don't play this game on paper. |
I don't think it's a seller's market. I think you wait to see how the rest of this month goes. You cruise into September and you have a better idea. You don't go off selling people now or you are quitting right now. Now is not the time. |
I just have to make it tough on them. |