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
came easy
Nothing came easy for him today, but he got through it a bit.
alive people
People will say we're actually alive and that's not bad.
fastball mph poise talking
Poise? I don't think we're talking about poise here. I think we're talking about a 97 mph fastball with a curveball from hell.
ball ground hit hurt last looking missed run second situations year
Last year, we missed too many opportunities. What hurt us more than anything last year was situational hitting, so if we can hit a ground ball to second in some of those situations to get a run in, we're going to be better off for it. That's what we are looking for, a little better situational hitting.
sending silly start stupid
Sending him back out there, that's a little silly to try to do something stupid with a man's career. We haven't done that to him all year, and we weren't going to start today.
ball clicked hoped swinging
So far, we haven't come out swinging like we hoped we would. We just haven't clicked on the ball offensively yet enough to win games.
good player popular
Omar was probably the most well-respected, popular player they've had here, but Peralta has done a very good job.
longer send sit
Sit him out any longer and you're going to have to send him out on a rehab. We need to get him in the lineup and let him play.
send time
Most of the time you send Rad back out there. But this isn't most of the time any more.
brad send time whatever win
Most of the time you send Brad back out there, but this isn't most of the time. We're going to try to do whatever we have to do to win games.
send
Most of the time, you'd send (Radke) back out there, but this isn't 'most of the time' anymore.
fear half handle lead maybe people starting
Maybe we can put some fear in them, They have a single-digit lead (over Cleveland) now, so you know they're starting to feel the effects. And that's half the battle, to see how people handle things.
ask means ought people
Means something to me, but you ought to ask some of those people out there,
decide seen somebody stepping waiting
No one is stepping up. I haven't seen enough to decide that I want somebody out there. I'm just waiting for somebody to step up.