Jay Gibbons
Jay Gibbons
Jay Jonathan Gibbonsis a former American professional baseball right fielder in Major League Baseball. He played college baseball at California State University, Los Angeles and in the Major Leagues for the Baltimore Orioles and Los Angeles Dodgers. He attended Mayfair High School in Lakewood, California. He is the current hitting coach for the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the California League...
guy hurting ten
Ten you can get away with as a team. You can do without a guy for 10 days, but 20, you're kind of hurting your ballclub, too.
ball hurting ten
Ten is a little light, ... Ten, you can get away with it as a team, but 20, you're hurting your ball club.
doubling guy hurting public ten
Doubling it is good. I think 10 is a little light. Ten you can get away with as a team. You can do without a guy for 10 days, but 20, you're kind of hurting your ballclub, too. Not just your own public scrutiny, but you're hurting your ballclub to win.
bit seem
I've been working with my mechanics, ... They seem to be a little bit more sound.
clutch double game guy hit mess mind pitches second strikes thrown throws uses
First time, yes. Second time, no. He uses that too much, in the back of your mind you know he has that, it's one of those pitches you know you can double clutch and still hit it. If he hasn't thrown it all game and he has two strikes on a guy and he throws it up there, it's going to mess a guy up.
figure team
First I've got to figure out what team I'm on,
everybody fine normal seemed self worried
Everybody was worried after the stroke, but he seemed fine and was his normal self.
frustrated hoping taken team
We need him happy. He's the team leader. I'm hoping he was frustrated or it was taken out of context.
bit good hear road today
Obviously, on the road it's going to be a little bit rougher for him. I think it's good for him to come back today and hear some of the cheers.
bit road
Obviously, on the road it's going to be a little bit rougher for him.
given sorry timing top
I feel sorry for him, given the timing of it. You think he's on top of the world after getting 3,000 hits.
bats brutal figure puzzled swinging
I can't figure it out. I'm a little puzzled by it. It's pretty brutal how we're swinging the bats right now.
ball changes die hope last lets needed next playing policy problem step steroids worrying year
We have made significant changes to the policy in the last year and a half. We made the first step by ourselves, and we thought we needed to take the next step. We hope this lets things die down with Congress, because we want to end the problem now and get back to playing ball and not worrying about steroids every day.
care losing
There has been a lot of distractions. After losing the first game, we showed that we do care and that we want to win.