Casey Blake Last Quotations

I wouldn't say we're a better team than last year at this time. But mentally, we're in a better place. Having gone through what we did at the end of last season, I think we're better off for it.

Last year was last year. We're going to be a better team for that experience.

Expectations don't bother us, because we expect to win ourselves. Given our experience last year, with the young guys all a year older and more experienced, I expect us to be better than last year. It wouldn't be a good situation if nobody expected you to be able to win. But our fans and the city expect us to win, and so do we.

I just wanted to be aggressive and put a good swing on it. I just feel like I am more comfortable in the box and have a more solid approach than last year. Baseball is a tough game and you have to play with confidence. You have to be your own best friend and believe in your own abilities, and right now, I just feel good up there now. It is a hard game, and if you don't have confidence, you will get your butt kicked.

We expected to win today. We expected to win the whole last week. When we really needed the runs, they were hard to come by.

It was a weird set of circumstances. We expected to win today, we expected to win the whole last week.

It makes it tough because I know that we played well. We beat them. We played well against them last year.