But as a staff, we were able to spend more time on a few more things. |
Everyone assumed it was an easy run, |
Everything was as good as it could possibly be. Everything he's done up to this point pales in comparison. |
He made an amazing recovery. |
He sees everything. With his experience, these young pitchers would have to be idiots not to sit next to him every day and see what he sees. |
He's managed some teams that were out of it on May 20, ... so maybe he is the voice of experience. |
I definitely think he is, ... Athletes have to have a certain amount of pride to compete at the level they compete at. Randy is a very prideful athlete. |
I don't think he derived a whole lot of satisfaction from being a closer. It just didn't ring his bell. We think giving him a job he wants, we think he could be something special. |
I see little kids wearing flak jackets. If we're teaching little leaguers it's OK to wear body armor, those kids are going to go into high school, and into college, and eventually they're going to be big league players, and I can just see them walking up there now in a damn suit of armor. Straddling the plate. With a bat over their heads. I don't know where it stops. |
I think he's got a wide enough variety of pitches that familiarity won't be a problem. |
I think it provides an unfair advantage to the hitters. |
I think the biggest problem is what appears to be a lack of concentration and a lack of focus. |
I was in Frank's office, and we were going over all the Reds' hitters, |
I'm pretty sure Tony has already been ejected from this ballgame, |
If Grace stomps to the clubhouse, fires his batting helmet, ... I'm probably going to lose every veteran on the team. |