Sean Casey
Sean Casey
Sean Thomas Casey, nicknamed "The Mayor," is a former Major League Baseball first baseman for the Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers, and Boston Red Sox. Casey was selected to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game three times during his career. He is currently a broadcaster and commentator for the MLB Network...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth2 July 1974
CityWillingboro, NJ
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We have played well here. It's good for us. We've had a lot of years where they've dominated us here.
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We're playing real good baseball right now, ... The bottom line is we are getting real good starting pitching. If you get that and some timely hitting, you win ballgames.
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There are still mixed emotions. Everything I've done as a big leaguer has been with the Reds. I see those guys over there. I'm a human being. I like the guys in the Pirates' clubhouse. They've been good to me. But I developed a lot of relationships over there, too.
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When you see the organization signing those guys, you can see there's a commitment. There are a lot of good things happening here.
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Size was a big deal for them, especially with their big guys playing like they did. We tried to pinch them in on the ends, but that didn't work. We didn't do a good job of that in the first half and that was the game.
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I have no memory of it, nothing between reaching for the ball ... and then waking up and seeing (Reds catcher Jason) LaRue leaning over me, which wasn't a good sight.
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Whenever I look at the Reds stuff in the paper, the guys tell me to turn the page.
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I don't think he took it too well at first. But hey, he's a typical 15-, 16-year-old. I think he's fine with it.
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This was a frustrating series for us. Their pitchers really shut us down.
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Every time I got on the elevator in the hotel, I'd meet people who had evacuated. You could see on their faces that they were distraught.
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I am going where life is more like life than it is here.
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Obviously, we can afford to give more than the average person, but $10 or $20 will help.
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One of the guys was giving soccer balls to the Iraqi kids and bam - a bomb blew up. All of the guys' families were there, and some of the mothers, you could see the sadness in their eyes. It just makes you appreciate what those guys are doing over there, it really makes you think.
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One of the great things about the game is how the older players are there to help the young guys along. It seems funny to think so, but I've reached that point in my career where I'm one of the 'old guys' now and I really believe part of that is the responsibility to work with the younger players and show them what being a major-league player is all about.