Ballclub Quotes

As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.

To finally get a chance to see him after all the talk about him being lights out is great. And I think it`s true. I think he has a very good chance to be with this ballclub.

Things like that don`t happen to me too often. It`s been a long time since I made two mistakes in less than a week. But when things aren`t going well with a ballclub, anything can happen. We`re going through that right now.

You always want to be in there helping your teammates out, ... I`ve had my struggles at the plate this year, but I`ll do whatever I can to help this ballclub win and from there make the necessary adjustments.

This is a game I could build on, but you know what, it doesn`t matter right now what I do personally. I want to do a lot for this ballclub and I want the team to win. Unfortunately, we lost today.

Each day is better, ... I`m not 100 percent. I`m not going to be 100 percent because it`s going to take another three to four months for it to heal completely. For me, it`s being 100 percent functional and doing what I need to do to help the ballclub win.

We joke around a lot with our ballclub.

He`s kind of like that sheep dog that keeps showing up in the cartoon, ... He punches in, punches out, he doesn`t have a whole lot to say. But you look up at the board and he`s got double-digit homers (10), he`s got (63) RBIs. As I`ve said all year long, he`s hit the ball harder, with more consistency, and made more hard outs than anybody on this ballclub right now. Anytime you`ve got Todd Helton on your ballclub, that`s something.

That was the original intent and understanding. Jim came on three years ago with the understanding of working with Flanagan for a period of time that would result in Mike assuming the position of general manager of the ballclub.

We all know what type of player he is and what he can mean to this ballclub. Hopefully, that`s a little premature and hopefully he will be able to play this season.