Ron Gardenhire
Ron Gardenhire
Ronald Clyde Gardenhireis a former Major League Baseball shortstop for the New York Mets and former manager of the Minnesota Twins. He currently serves as a special assistant to the General Manager of the Minnesota Twins, Terry Ryan...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth24 October 1957
CityButzbach, Germany
chance everybody people
We'll have different people in there tomorrow. We're going to give everybody a chance to look bad.
baseball defensive fun meeting putting
We'll have a little 'pump-'em-up' meeting and then go play baseball. We'll be putting in the whole defensive package. That's where it's fun for me.
cancel guarantee hearts job puck shut
You'd like to just be able to cancel everything and shut it down but that's not the way the world works. And we understand. We all have a job to do. You can guarantee our hearts are right there with Puck and the family. ... We all know where Puck is going to be. He's going to be up there whacking the ball.
exactly feeling happened needed
We needed a win, desperately. We needed to get back and have a better feeling around here, and that's exactly what happened tonight.
cares intense needed wants win
We needed a win ? desperately. He's pretty intense right now. No one wants to win more than Johan. That's what he cares most about ? winning.
five innings pennant race runs trying
We did everything we could, ... You're in a pennant race. ... We're trying to win. Five runs in two innings -- you can't go with that.
clubhouse guys talked winter
This winter we talked about getting the clubhouse back. The guys we got are clubhouse people.
nice says talked
We've talked about it. He says he'd like to do more. That would be nice to see.
last tried tv year
We tried a hit-and-run (twice) last night. We got one of them right. That's better than the year before. I think that was more of a TV malfunction.
battling early found games groove injured people
We're 17 games in. I'd say that's too early (to be concerned). We still haven't found a groove yet. If we do that, we can compete. If we're 7-10 here and we've got people injured and some people who aren't here, I think we're battling pretty good.
hits pitching playing together
We did our part on the pitching but didn't get it done offensively today. We have to keep playing to see if we can put together some hits and get going.
guys
Our guys battled. Their guy was just a little better.
hearts prayers situation tough
Our hearts and our prayers are all with Puck. We know its a tough situation out there.
baseball cleveland close easier good pitching playing teams
Our pitching is pretty close to where we need to be. I think we're going to be fine. It's not going to get easier going into Cleveland (this weekend). We're going to be playing a lot of good baseball teams early, so you're not going to be able to breathe. You've got to keep grinding.