Braden Looper
Braden Looper
Braden LaVerne Looperis a former Major League Baseball pitcher...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth28 October 1974
CityWeatherford, OK
cardinals career drafted envisioned playing upset
I was upset then. I was pretty naive. The Cardinals drafted me, and I envisioned playing my whole career there. I didn't know how long I would be in Florida.
bad stunk
I stunk it up. I feel bad for Glav, I feel bad for the team. It's over. There's nothing I can do about it now.
along bad ball base felt game ground hit kept needed spring themselves throw took work
You get to throw pitches. That's what I needed to do - get in a game. I've said all along that things will work themselves out. I know where I'll be. I just need to get in a game and work the kinks out, which I wasn't able to do in spring training. I felt good, kept the ball down and got ground balls. Even the base hit was a ground ball. It just hit a boulder and took a bad hop. I felt good.
almost blame exact
As a closer, you never like to get pulled. But it's the manager's call, and he almost made the exact right call. How could you blame him?
everybody team won
I let my team down. I let everybody down, ... We should have won the game.
best describe rock running shoe
The best way to describe it, ... is you have a quarter-inch rock in your shoe and you're just running with it all the time. It's irritating. You feel like you can't do what you want to do.
goes matter seems time
This is probably the most frustrating time I've ever had. It seems no matter what I do right now, it goes wrong.
definitely early few good hacking happen left middle pitch pitches ready stage threw
They were hacking at the first pitch I threw every time. It was a good test. I got ready quick. I got ready in the middle of an inning. I definitely left a few pitches up, and that's going to happen for me early because I'm still in that feeling-out stage early after surgery.
allowed chance establish gave league major pitch trade worked
The trade gave me a chance to pitch and grow. In retrospect, it worked out well. It allowed me to establish myself at the major league level.
definitely hard
It would be hard to say no, ... But it's definitely not what I prefer.
bad time
These streaks come and go. It's just a bad time for us. That's for sure.
anybody best hope knows
I don't think anybody in here really knows what is going on so I don't want to speculate. We hope the best for him and hope everything is OK.
great win
Glav pitched a great game, should have had the win today,
game great won
Glavine pitched a great game and he should have won it, ... I stunk.