DeMarlo Hale
DeMarlo Hale
DeMarlo Haleis an American professional baseball coach for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball. Prior to coaching, Hale played minor league baseball from 1983 to 1988 in the Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics organizations...
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I do understand the passion of the fans, and I think that's a plus when you're talk about playing or coaching, because they are behind you, but there are 35,000 of them in the stands. Tito has the confidence to put me over there. We got to know each other in Texas, and I think my demeanor plays a little bit of a factor, because I don't get too high or too low.
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It doesn't feel strange. It really doesn't. It was six years. You're talking about an opportunity. An opportunity came up for me to come back in this position, and I welcomed it and jumped at it.
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There were no hard feelings. I spoke to people over here and said, ?I don?t think I can pass up that opportunity right now.? I looked, I thought, I weighed, and I said I think I need to explore this opportunity, instead of maybe waiting a few more years to get the opportunity with the Red Sox.
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Stand firm. If you get someone thrown out, you get someone thrown out. Sometimes the situation calls for you to be aggressive. If you coach third base and you don't get someone thrown out, you're not being very aggressive. It's just a matter of when.