Ken Williams
Ken Williams
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I'm probably the only guy in Chicago who doesn't have the luxury of relishing in the sentimentality of what happened last season. The defeatist attitude that we'll always be Chicago's second team doesn't fly with me.
asset knowledge pitchers teammates
With his knowledge of pitchers in this league, he could be an asset to his teammates just by being around,
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One of the reasons we picked each one of these guys on this team is we wanted a bunch of fighters, ... We wanted guys who could be resilient and had been resilient to criticism or doubts throughout the course of their whole career.
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He took a club predicted by some to finish third or fourth place and rode it to a World Series championship. That's a very commendable thing. I've been a little disappointed in some of the awards. ... But all along Ozzie and I decided the most important thing was a team effort, to be cohesive as a unit, and all individual things were secondary.
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Generations of people have not seen us get to this level, ... I have personally carried that weight on my shoulders, to the degree that is not healthy sometimes. People have come and gone and not seen their team in the World Series. I am so happy now for all of them.
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Our ultimate desire ... was to keep this team intact. It may turn out that someone overwhelms us with an offer for Jose.
best game manager prepare team win
Our manager is doing his best to win the game and to prepare his team for the playoffs,
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Understand that a lot of people, generations, have come and gone and not seen their team win the World Series,
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Everybody saw the plus-stuff; we didn't pull off any kind of heist or anything. We took a chance on a guy who was coming off of surgery, who had a steel rod in his arm, and got lucky.
chance coming everybody guy pull rod saw steel took
Everybody saw the plus-stuff; we didn't pull off any kind of heist or anything, ... We took a chance on a guy who was coming off of surgery, who had a steel rod in his arm, and got lucky.
effort simply
It was just an effort to simply get better.
donors meet money projected specific
It's really all about trust. If donors give money to meet a specific need, we need to tell them when that projected need has been met.
call games people
I'm going to have to call some people and see if I can set up some games this week,
fine hired knew
I'm fine with that. We knew what Ozzie was about when we hired him.