When George found out about it, it was church.
I`ll miss him for sure.
The best part of it was we shut their offense down. I knew we had the pitching to do what we`ve got to do and what we can do.
When we were up 6-1, the game was not over. Not versus that club. Not by any means.
Billy actually passed the pitcher but I thought that the pitcher got the corner of the bag and Billy got the middle. It was close.
When you sign some new guys, you are selling them on the league. Joe Klein has been very good about it. Sometimes he has apologized, and sometimes he has said deal with it. Moaning about it just made everyone else think bad about it.
I really don`t know why. I know one thing: My guys go out there and play hard for me. That is such a confidence booster for me.
He was safe, no if ands or butts about it. That was one of the worst calls of the year. That wasn`t even a contest. It changes the whole thing.
He`s going to play the rest of the way out.
Last year I didn`t think he was ready to throw, and I told him to take the rest of the year off. I gave him my word that we would bring him to spring training.