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
hearts perspective prayers situation takes tough
We all put things in perspective here. That pretty much takes away from anything you do at the ballpark. Our hearts and our prayers are all with Puck. We know it's a tough situation out there.
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It takes us an hour and a half to get to Sarasota and Bradenton, and you can add 15-20 minutes more with the traffic. A team in Port Charlotte would be perfect.
heard takes
We all heard about this right before lunch. That pretty much takes away from anything you do at the ballpark.
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A presence like his can only help. He's a pretty classy man. He told me he's ready to do whatever it takes to help. If I need him to help some young kids, he'll do that.
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Our thoughts and our prayers are turned towards Puck in Arizona. We all heard about this before lunch and that pretty much takes away from anything you do at a ballpark. We did the best we could do today and the game was whatever ... it was a game.
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I don't know, not until he comes out and takes BP. Whether he gets into this series or not will depend on him. He's pretty sore, that's all I know.
help takes whatever willing
He told me he's willing to do whatever it takes to help us win.
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Whether the general manager believes that he can help me out of my pen, I haven't asked yet. That was impressive to me to watch him come right at the hitters with a nice angle to the ball.
pride whatever win
We're going to do whatever we can to try to win games. So pride can go out the window.
defensive guys instead men mode offensive position scoring
When we get men into scoring position or on base, it's like we go into defensive mode instead of offensive mode. I don't know how to get guys out of it.
call
What he should do is call me. Not you.
hit messing start
We're doing fine. I'm not going to start messing around with guys' brains. In time, he'll hit cleanup. We've said that before.
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(We're) facing a hot team that's got everything going for them. And we're not really locating the ball as good as we can. That's what it comes down to.
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We're getting down to a few numbers where we can work it a little easier and not try to get everyone in. We want to start stretching out our players and take a good look at some of these guys that are battling each other and battling for positions on this team.