All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.

There's absolutely no way you can go barreling into second and dump a guy on a double play, like you should do, when you've been fraternizing with him before a game.

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

I expect that [trying to do the best] of my players today and of my kids. My wife says I shouldn't expect that of my children, but I don't think that's asking too much.