Phil Garner
Phil Garner
Philip Mason Garneris an American former baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as an infielder with the Oakland Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants from 1973 to 1988. He was manager of the Astros from July 14, 2004 to August 27, 2007, leading Houston to a World Series appearance in 2005...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth30 April 1949
CityJefferson City, TN
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make your pitches, (it) doesn't matter if we walk him.
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It's bad. No matter who you are playing, it's not very good.
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The fact of the matter is, he gave up a pretty monstrous home run, ... Best thing we can do is laugh about it, go on with it to the next day and have a little bit of fun with it.
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They have beaten us up pretty badly this year. They have really thumped us pretty good. Just as a matter of pride, we would not want to see them celebrate here again. We'd like to change that.
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They have beaten us up pretty badly this year, ... They have really thumped us pretty good. Just as a matter of pride, we would not want to see them celebrate here again. We'd like to change that.
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They have beaten us up pretty badly this year. It's just a matter of pride that we wouldn't want to see them celebrate again here. We'd like to change that.
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There were a whole lot of things last year that made me nervous. Starting off last season, I did not think we had a good enough team to get to the playoffs, and the truth of the matter is the kids all stepped up and grew up in a hurry and we ended up playing great ball.
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If you play well against the division, that makes matters a whole lot better, and that's why it becomes critical.
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I feel a little bit more comfortable in the underdog world. I don't know how I feel in the dead role too much. There is a certain amount of satisfaction in proving people wrong. But the truth of the matter is, we did look dead. You can't fault anybody for writing what looks to be the truth.
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And as a matter of fact, ... I'll be delighted when they close the roof here tonight. It will be much more comfortable for everybody.
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The look that you saw in his face was total resolve, ... I don't think it was a matter of how long it was going to take, he was going to do whatever it took and I don't think I could have gotten the ball out of his hand anyway, and it was his game.
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I never feel comfortable until the game is over no matter what the score is, but you certainly feel good with Roy on the mound when you have a good lead and you have a fresh bullpen. You feel a lot of things are in your favor but we couldn't get that third strike.
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We just had a lot of Dontrelle Willis tonight, more than I'd care to see, ... Brandon (Backe) threw the ball well. He had a lot of good pitches and only a few mistakes. That was a decent job against a team that is really swinging the bat well.
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We just had a lot of Dontrelle Willis tonight, more than I'd care to see.