The best thing that could have happened to this team is what happened the last three weeks, assuming we won, which we have. Now I sense that we're recharged. |
The energy was good today early. I knew we'd be in the game. I hope guys realize that we can't wait for good things to happen and then have energy. You've got to come with it first, and then good things follow. |
The last three weeks . . . anytime you said up, it was down. This time, he positioned me just right. If I had moved to the line more, that ball's in right field. |
The overall kind of theme in the dugout was, everybody loves Bobby, we're not going to let him go home feeling bad about this. We thought, we're going to get this win, but I didn't think it would be that quick. |
The way he handled the bench, you can't do it any better. Any team I've been on, that's the most common thing. The bench players are usually unhappy or have problems with the way the manager treats them. That doesn't really exist on our team. |
The way our team operates best is that everyone has an equal voice. |
The way our team operates best, it seems to me, is everybody has an equal voice. |
The way our team operates best, it seems to me, is when everybody has an equal voice -- right down to the guy who has 10 days in the big leagues. It seems like everybody treats each other with respect, and there isn't that ranking of [service] time and stuff like that. I think that's when things can kind of go south. I think when you play it cool and everybody treats each other equally, then you get better things. |
The way we've been all year, I have a sense we can score 10 runs at any time. You hope for the best and we know it's in us. |
The World Series is separate; I don't think it's something that should be dragged into this year. But what you can drag in is we have the players to win games. We have the right pieces to win. So if we don't win, it's going to be magnified, as well it should. |
There are a lot of emotional things involved there. Frank is his own man and can do what he wants. |
There are good vibes right now. We've kind of turned it around a little bit. We know it's in the driver's seat and it's there for the taking as long as we just do our job. We don't have to really look at the scoreboard, but it's always nice if you get some help. But we know we can do it on our own, as well. |
There was an instance where it showed the wrong call was made last night and there was another instance where it was shown to be the right call, |
There wasn't much not to like here. |
There were no guarantees that was going to work. But we needed to break the mold we had going at that time. |