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
ball banging happen hurt kept missed playing
We just kept banging away and fortunately enough, they made one mistake, missed a ball which hurt them. You've just got to keep playing because you never know what is going to happen in the game.
backed exactly good year
This year he's been very, very solid. As good as they get in this league. We haven't exactly scored a lot of runs. We know that. But he's backed it up.
anybody bullpen protected ready september starting themselves throwing
We've protected our starting staff, so they're good, they're ready to go. We haven't let anybody kill themselves throwing 120 pitches, so we're set up for September pitching-wise, if our bullpen can maintain.
time year
We've probably had too many at the same time this year who've struggled.
balls miss played
We've played well defensively. We don't miss too many balls there.
hike paper understand whatever
Whatever you feel -- 'Who's got your back?' like I read in the paper -- it's not about that. It's about winning. And if you don't understand that, take a hike out of the clubhouse.
motivate time whatever
Whatever you can do to motivate yourself, do it at this time of year.
against anybody effort field fighting goal hard playing playoffs teams
We're playing against teams that are fighting for the playoffs and we're going to make every effort to get after it as hard as we can, ... My goal is not to let anybody clinch while we're on the field with them.
bad early everybody head hit improve keeps rough saying spring terrible winter
Everybody keeps saying it was a terrible year, but those weren't too bad of numbers. But he did struggle. He got hit in the head early and had a rough spring because of his winter with so many illnesses. Overall, if you look at it, he's got a lot of things that he can improve upon offensively.
checked heart
Everything checked out fine. They even said I had a heart.
chuckle left
As 'TK' would tell you, he left me with a can't-miss team. I always chuckle at that.
chuckle left
As 'TK' would tell you, he left me with a can't-miss team, ... I always chuckle at that.
ballgame truth
Disappointing ballgame for us. I really don't know what to say about it, to tell you the truth.
ballgame truth
Disappointing ballgame for us, ... I really don't know what to say about it, to tell you the truth.