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The young kids haven't learned how to do it. They pitched around several of our veterans (last year) to get to the young kids. According to my statistical analysis, we were ranked at the bottom of the league in most all offensive categories.

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It's wise to take it seriously.

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There's no question that 600-pound gorilla was in the room that no one wanted to talk about. If you keep going innings without scoring runs, everybody tries to do too much in one at-bat, and that's when you start to get into trouble. That's when it becomes a team slump. It was nice to answer in the first inning.

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His offensive numbers probably aren't what we'd all like to see them be, but he's shown some power, and I think he shows some hits in clutch situations. He's not afraid of anything. He has that little boy in him.

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He told me he felt a lot better today. So I assume he's on track to pitch Sunday.

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I thought he was going to be able to pitch, but it clearly swelled up on him. I think it was probably a little factor in the game in the way he was trying to work with it.

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We wouldn't win all these games if Berkman was hitting the ball, but it has something to do with it. That means you can get around Morgan Ensberg. Anytime some guys are slumping, you can get around them and not get hurt, and you end up with some low-scoring games.

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He had to have a few stitches in his middle finger. He'll be out for a few days. We don't know a time frame on that yet.

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He could have taken the rest of the year just to rehab, which is probably a lot of the advice that he had received. He decided that he was going to push it a little bit and try to come back this year, just in case.

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You've got to tip your hat to David Eckstein. He plays the game as hard as you can play it. On the other side, you don't like him because he really gets in your hair, but you appreciate what he does.

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Was that his ninth win That's pretty good. You've got a guy who didn't figure in your rotation at the start of the year and when he gets in he's won more than he's lost, so that's pretty good. He pitched a nice crisp game tonight. He threw strikes, he gets ahead. That gives a team a lift.

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You're like, 'Am I supposed to feel this nervous and scared' Then you talk to other guys and realize that everybody goes through that. The key is to talk about it and learn how to channel it.

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I think Mike Gallo did a wonderful when he came back from Triple-A last year and carried us down the stretch as the only lefthander. It would be my preference to have two lefties, but that's not set in stone.

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a disregard for the comfort of our fans.

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That's a good baseball play right there. Biggio was running hard out of the box going to second, so it creates a little diversion there, and Willy was coming hard the whole way.

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Houston will go crazy and it will be a wonderful thing.

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I want him to be in the 15-win range, maybe six or seven games over .500. My only criticism, if I have one, is that he gets behind hitters during the regular season. He doesn't do that in the playoffs because he is aggressive and gets ahead of the hitters.

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Thank goodness for Adam Everett tonight. Some of those runs you fail to pick up could come back to haunt you, but Adam was cleaning it up all night long for us, and it turned out to be the difference in the game.

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Nobody pitches better in the playoffs than he does. My one criticism, and I only have one, is he pitches behind hitters too much in the regular season and he doesn't seem to do that in the playoffs.

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We have to break out. We have to score some runs. Our pitchers have been giving us good enough games. We have to buckle down.

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The misfortunes created by some situations can turn out to be pretty good for you, and in this case Craig leading off is a good situation. I don't mind having to do that at all.

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I was happy to see the way he threw. We did not see that at all in spring, but from the first pitch I knew he was feeling good.

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He threw the ball well. I was very pleased. He had good mound presence, threw the ball over the plate and after probably six or seven pitches, it looked like he said, 'Alright I'm going at them,' and he did. He just settled right in. He didn't go deep in the count a lot of times. He went right after them and made them do something.

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He might have thrown 10, 20 innings, and I'm honest with you when I say that. I think he was prepared to do whatever it took. I've never seen anyone like him. He's amazing.

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I'm not worried about that. I don't think that will be a major issue. I don't see that we would lay back and wait on Roger to make a decision. I think guys are going to be out there fighting to win, even if Rocket announced his retirement.

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