You have to do something when they are giving something away or they'll throw all the boxes on the field, ... If they give something away and you have an 0-for, it's a pretty bad feeling.
You've got to keep playing, you know? You can't look at your record right now because it's only going to put you in a bad mood. It's just a matter of going back out there every day and, slowly, you get back to where you need to be.
You could tell he thought it was the third out. I don't think it was a bad play to go for it. But Eckstein made a good play.
It's one of those things where you have to keep playing. You can't look at your record right now because it's only going to put you in a bad mood.
That's really unacceptable. That's the ball I want hit to me every time. To make that bad a throw, there is nothing anybody can do about that. That ended up costing us the game.
That's the bad part of baseball: If you're the manager, you're going to get all the blame. He ended up getting fired for what we didn't do. He was the kind of guy who demanded everything he could get out of you. We just didn't get it done, and our record shows that.
You can't look at our record right now -- it'll only put you in a bad mood. It's not like we've been playing horrible. We just can't put it together. That's how you become a losing team.