Ironically, I wasn't real happy with our first 10 games. But we had a better record. I'm more happy with our last 10 games. |
It makes life easier, doesn't it? It makes our team easier when they -- for lack of a better word -- produce. It takes a lot of the strain off. |
It may not bode well for having a sparkling win-loss record at the end of the year, but you make or break yourself with what you do in the Pac-10. |
It was a little bit of a gamble, changing it up that late. There are certain athletes that sit around and ponder themselves into slumps or bad situations. I don't think Brian's ever going to be accused of that. |
It was pretty special. It was a great way to show how to not set the tempo. That's probably the one thing this club could not afford to have today. |
It's hard to measure what you really are doing if you're playing bad people. When you're playing good people you get a chance to figure things out pretty quickly. |
It's not a far-fetched idea that one of these guys may show up with their sons one day on a Little League field built with those proceeds. |
It's really our first class (to get drafted), and I miss those guys. But it's been great to have them be a part of it this weekend. |
Mark was not as sharp as he usually is, but that is going to happen from time to time. |
My dad fought in the Second World War, and it offends me when they put our military down. That's why I am here to defend our president. |
That's been our bugaboo for the last six, seven, eight, nine games or so. We're not getting the big hits at all. |
That's frustrating. If you have a club that's going to hit 40 to 60 home runs, then you can take that. But you don't want to make mistakes in the air. |
That's what really is missing on the West Coast. It's an electric conference. It inspires young guys to play even better than they can at times. . . I lived it for seven years. There is no margin for error, no mercy, no grace. |
The goal is to play the game soundly, and we did not play the game soundly at all this weekend. We took a couple of steps backwards. |
The hard part is these are young guys, and we talked about executing a plan on each pitch. |