Kenny Williams
Kenny Williams
initial phone returned talk
This talk could have been had way back when if he'd returned my initial phone call.
benchmark explain percentage playoff successful trends
You can look at different trends to explain it, a .355 on-base percentage being the benchmark for a successful playoff team,
good miss
We don't miss his attitude. We don't miss the whining. ... Good riddance.
chances dependent guys physical shoulder touch
For me, it's dependent upon the guy's history. For a pitcher, always. Always for a pitcher. I don't take chances too much with guys who have physical issues, particularly in the shoulder area. I don't like to touch guys with shoulder problems.
four games talk win won
It's very similar, but we haven't won anything yet, ... We need to win four more games and then talk about comparisons.
check floating
It's kind of a floating number, but we want to check in around $90 million.
extremely special
It's extremely special because we hadn't been (to the World Series) in so long,
bunch hanging noticed spring training
It was in spring training that you noticed a bunch of them hanging around together, going out to dinner,
bunch few last starts
We had a whole bunch of starts the last few years and we underachieved,
along calling came dog goes ourselves seemed somehow whiskey
We were calling ourselves Dog Daze for a while. We didn't really like that. Somehow Whiskey Dog came up, and it seemed to fit. It kind of goes along with our music.
chance offer team together
We'll offer him as much as we can offer him and still have a chance to keep the whole of the team together and win,
single top
We'll never let A.J. get on top of the world. Never. Not one single day.
family grades puts taught
The most important thing he taught me was being a student-athlete. He puts your family and your grades first. Then basketball.
bit continue evolve growing known manner position responsibility team work
Just because we've come off a world championship, we have work to do as a team and as an organization, and as individuals. Ozzie is still growing into the position and the responsibility of the position as well as I am. We'll just continue to try to evolve in a way that is a first-class and respectable way. We not only want to try to win, we want to try to win in a first-class manner and be known as a first-class organization. Clearly, we have a little bit of work to do, but we will keep at it.