Eric Chavez Quotes
I hope we can score five or six runs tomorrow. I hope this will help get our confidence back. There`s a lot of baseball left, I hope we can get going again.
I threw probably 100 balls. That`s when it started to go downhill. I I got nervous. What if I can never throw the same again?
By this time of year, we`ve heard (Beane) throw three or four tantrums. So far -- none. He won`t say it, but he relishes the fact that everyone counted us out, and here we are.
The tournament is a great idea. Even if I don`t end up playing, I`m excited about watching it on TV.
Jermaine said when Frank was in there, he was hitting everything out of the park. Everything is still there, the stroke, the vision. We just have to keep him healthy.
Ellis is locked in. A week ago, we couldn`t find a hit, and now we`re back to being comfortable about scoring runs. As good as our pitching is... our hitting will really dictate how we do.
(His spring performance bears him out. Dye was one of Oakland`s most impressive hitters during camp, driving the ball with his old authority.) He`s raking, ... He`s got that confident look in his eye again.
We lost. The numbers say you`re out and the season is over -- that`s it. I think it was quite evident we were not going to do it. The numbers and history were not on our side. When he caught the ball, that`s the end, There`s no more.
He didn`t hit the panic button. He wasn`t putting the blame on anybody, wasn`t pointing the finger at anyone. He told us we`re gonna still come to the field and improve ourselves every day. He handled it the way a professional should handle it.
He`s raking. He`s got that confident look in his eye again.
