A lot of cheers, probably some boos mixed in. Understandable. I think overall it will be better than worse. I've seen a lot of support. |
Anytime a player is day-to-day like a Rule 5 player is, you can't help but take the bad games home with you. We asked for a contract in 2002 and 2003, but the Orioles weren't ready. If they had not given me a contract, I was going to play hard this year and see what happened in free agency. |
Doubling it is good, |
Doubling it is good. I think 10 is a little light. Ten you can get away with as a team. You can do without a guy for 10 days, but 20, you're kind of hurting your ballclub, too. Not just your own public scrutiny, but you're hurting your ballclub to win. |
Everybody was worried after the stroke, but he seemed fine and was his normal self. |
First I've got to figure out what team I'm on, |
First time, yes. Second time, no. He uses that too much, in the back of your mind you know he has that, it's one of those pitches you know you can double clutch and still hit it. If he hasn't thrown it all game and he has two strikes on a guy and he throws it up there, it's going to mess a guy up. |
He was coming right at us. He gave us plenty of pitches to hit, but it didn't happen. |
He was coming right at us. He was challenging us. I felt we let him off the hook a couple of times, but he threw pretty good. |
He was pretty tough tonight. He left a couple of pitches up and that was it. |
I came into the season with a manager telling me that I'm going to be the first baseman, |
I came really close, ... I just ran out of arm. |
I can't figure it out. I'm a little puzzled by it. It's pretty brutal how we're swinging the bats right now. |
I don't know what he said, |
I feel sorry for him, given the timing of it. You think he's on top of the world after getting 3,000 hits. |