Geoff Blum
Geoff Blum
Geoffrey Edward Blumis an American former professional baseball infielder in Major League Baseball and current part-time announcer for the Houston Astros. During his major-league career, he played for the Montreal Expos, Houston Astros, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, San Diego Padres, Chicago White Sox and Arizona Diamondbacks. As a member of the World Series Champion White Sox in 2005, he hit the game-deciding home run in the longest contest in the history of the Fall Classic...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth26 April 1973
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Tenacity. We're great guys in the clubhouse, but when the game starts we turn into a bunch of angry individuals.
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You keep seeing names getting marked off and marked off the lineup card and eventually it gets down to the last guy on the totem pole. I was near the bottom. We were running out of bodies on the bench. It came down to the last man standing.
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You heard things, and everyone has reputations and they might have rubbed some people the wrong way. Everyone has their own quirks, but you want to play with a guy who's competitive and will do what it takes to win games. He's definitely one of those guys.
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Who wouldn't want to play for the defending world champions?
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It's the stuff dreams are made of. If you imagined a dream, that's it.
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The ball beat me by about two steps as I was going down to slide. I took a chance, hesitated a little bit. Fortunately, (Rodriguez) went for a swipe tag and that let me get in there.
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We've all played this game and had our hearts broken. I can only imagine what it feels like at this level.
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Those are golden opportunities. A strikeout right there would have been better than what I did.
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You look back at the last 150 years of baseball and you can probably count on one hand how many times that play has worked. So you can call it luck, you can call it savvy, you can call it whatever you want.
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Bags and Biggio. Anybody who stays with one team that long and puts that kind of investment into a city deserves to represent that city and that team in the World Series.
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That's helping me keep my sanity, knowing I faced decent pitchers.
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You sit around for 14 innings and something like that happens. I didn't know if I got it high enough.
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The brutal honesty that he brings to the game and to the clubhouse is why we play so hard. He's going to tell you when you're doing great, and he's going to tell you when you screwed up and did something wrong. He's intense. He's passionate. I don't think anything changed from the days when he was a player. That's a huge bonus for us. He's as animated on the field as he is off. Guys feed off that energy that he has.
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The way we win ballgames over here is to score just enough runs to stay ahead of the other team and beat them.