It was an internal meeting about internal things that stay in the Marlins internally. |
It was nice of him to do that. I didn't have to pay rent. He even gave me a car to drive. So I end up facing him and paying him back with a single. |
It was the coolest thing I've done on the field in a while. |
It's a big number for anybody, but it's probably a bigger number for me, because I haven't done it in a few years. There are a lot of guys out there who can close if they are given the opportunity. Or they are out there in front of a guy who is a great closer. Whatever, the situation doesn't present itself. You have to be ready when it does present itself. |
It's easy to say stuff like that when there's only a week to go in the season. A.J.'s a free spirit. He's got to live with his comments. |
It's going to affect everybody. The bright lights are coming on awfully early this year. I sometimes go the whole spring without seeing any of the horses, without facing a single big-league hitter. Now, it's going to be nothing but. I'm going to be facing the best right off the bat. |
It's hard to swallow this right now. This can be a dividing point. We'll see what kind of team we have now. |
It's just frustrating. I don't want to have to hear, 'Here we go. The guy's getting older and the body's breaking down. I knew he couldn't do it again.' But, hopefully, in two weeks, I'll be ready to go. |
It's nice for those guys that I played with to see me now, to see how I've evolved. It's nice to see Brad Ausmus say 'Hey you're doing great. I'm happy for you.' And Baggy. It means a lot coming from those guys. |
My goal was to go down there and find somebody I could help. I figured if everybody did that, then that's 30 less people [who need help]. And if everybody does that, then that's how you pick up your countrymen. |
Natural is better. Now guys with power mean more since not everybody has it. |
Neither one of them by themselves was a very good retailer. I don't see how putting those two retailers together makes them any better. |
Now he needs 800 more at-bats to be the greatest hitter in history, |
Of the 20-something pitches I threw, I think only two weren't strikes. So I felt pretty good. I was very happy. Not once did I feel anything that made me think about it. |
Oh, was I happy to see them. |