John Mabry
John Mabry
John Steven Mabryis a former Major League Baseball player and broadcaster, and is currently the hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals. He had 898 career hits in 3409 at-bats, with 96 home runs and 446 RBI. He is 6'4" tall, weighs 210 lbs, bats left-handed and throws right-handed...
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The change of management had nothing to do with the Allen report at all. This process was talked about several months ago, before the Allen report was brought to our attention.
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When you have a great closer on the mound in the ninth inning, the game is 99.9% over. So anything you can get against a guy like that is a huge plus.
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We hit pretty good. He came back because the throw came up. I didn't have anywhere to go. We did hit.
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I lost the ball in the sun. That was the thing. It was going to be a bang-bang play, and I was going to get there at the same time as the ball. I tried to create an angle by sliding, and it still didn't come out for me. Two runs scored and we lose.
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I lost the ball in the sun. Nobody feels worse about it than me. I tried to slide to create an angle, and I still didn't get it out of the sun.
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Last year, it was like a machine. It just kept rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling. This year, it's like whoever steps in comes up and does the job. It's a different guy every night. It's not the usual suspects, because most of them are hurt. Somebody goes out there and battles and gets a key hit or makes a big play for us.
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We want everyone to be aware of the breadth of research pertaining to the pork industry being done here at Iowa State. Faculty from the colleges of Agriculture, Engineering, Human Sciences and Veterinary Medicine are involved in doing research, and they work with our Extension folks on getting those results out to clients who need and want that information.
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We're building up fielding like we're building up our swing. If something goes wrong in a game or something I don't feel comfortable with, the next day I'll work on it. It's a feel thing, it's a timing thing. It's something that makes you comfortable out there. That's what I look for. If it's reaction instead of having to think about it, then I'm where I need to be.
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This won't be so much an accomplishment for our team as it is an accomplishment for the entire organization. This team hasn't relied on two or three guys. It's been everybody. When guys went down, others stepped up. No one here has just been along for the ride.
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I'll tell him anything he wants to know about the game or the team or the league, or whatever goes on in association with being a big leaguer. That's part of the deal when you get called up. Guys took care of me, and I try to take care of the young guys and make it easier.
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I hit him pretty good. The ball short-hopped and came up, so he backed up. When he backed up, he was in the middle of the base. I tried to hit the front corner and spin around him without hitting him. When I got there, he stood up, and my arm hit him right in the middle of the back.
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It's a neat thing to see. It's good for them. It's good for us. It's a good team atmosphere.
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It means he's doing his job because he's on base. You have to be on base to score runs. The more times he scores, the better off the Chicago Cubs are.
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I tried to get as low as I could and slide to create an angle. I didn't get it out of the sun.