Drayton McLane
Drayton McLane
Drayton McLane, Jr.is an American entrepreneur. He is chairman of the McLane Group, holding company that comprises a variety of diverse enterprises. He was, until 1990, the CEO of the McLane Company, a grocery and food service warehouse, supply, and logistics firm, and was, from 1993 until 2011, the chairman and CEO of the Major League Baseball's Houston Astros. On the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, he was ranked #324 in 2015 with an estimated net worth of $2...
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We're very, very excited about Preston Wilson. His enthusiasm is as sky high as ours is. He wants to be a champion, and we are still committed to being that champion. We want to go back to that World Series and win the World Series.
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By our going ahead and extending him, this shows the respect and admiration we have for Phil ... as a leader and as a person of accomplishment.
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I haven't heard from Scott Boras since Thursday.
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In the original policy, (the insurance company) claims that he could not come to Spring Training. We're going to take all of the information we have and meet with them and see if there is any opportunity (for Bagwell to play in Spring Training). Jeff just wants the opportunity.
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The insurance policy, from their point of view, would be the strongest if he did not come to spring training. I'm unsure of where we are on that.
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I'm going to call him the first day. Roger knows that and Randy (Hendricks) knows that. I told Roger he better be ready to go May 1.
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If you read the fine print, it says that ($30 million) figure doesn't account for interest, depreciation and other things. You take all those off, and most of that disappears.
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Each year, with our players, I ask them what their goals are. I said, 'Roy, what is one of your goals?' He said, 'To own a bulldozer.' That kind of took me back a little bit. I had never heard that before.
bunch kept last throwing
That just wasn't it. He kept throwing different things at us at the last hour. We never got a bunch of things resolved.
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Things came together through so much adversity this year. There were so many issues that it took time. But the character came out in them, and that was important when they lost Monday night. Two days later, we're champions.
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It was our desire to get to the World Series, and we did that. But we wanted to win. Our mission is to win the World Series, and we'll get to work on that in the morning.
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He came here at an awkward time at the All-Star break last year. He made a huge difference this year. It took time with Andy Pettitte coming off (elbow) surgery and Lance Berkman coming off knee surgery.
trouble
You're going to get me in trouble with the commissioner (Bud Selig).