These are quotes from the book "Tales from the Tigers Dugout". The
third edition is out now, meaning you get more recent tales! I read the
second edition which went through the 2012 season. Really great book
for Tigers fans.
"Alan
Tramell didn't really have a chance his last year. I've said it all
along, if Guillen and Pudge and Ordonez are out of our lineup on a
consistent basis, we wouldn't be worth anything, either. That's the way
it is. But people don't want to hear that." ~ Jim Leyland
If tomorrow you could not play, how hard would you play today?
What's
really scary with Cabrera is that he is getting better with plate
discipline each year, making it harder for pitchers to let him retire
himself, as Verlander suggested. (2012)
Who
else would crouch down and manicure the mound each inning? Who else
would talk to the ball or himself or anyone who would listen? And who
else would throw balls back to the umpire with bizarre requests? "That
ball has a hit in it," Fidrych said. "I want it to get back in the ball
bag and goof around with the other balls in there. Maybe it'll learn
some sense and come out as a pop-up next time."
A basic baseball truth: Players decide games. Managers dissect them. ~ Sparky Anderson
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