Tony Russa
Tony Russa
closer depends hesitate mean moving nice positive
Depends on the game, depends on the situation. I think he's getting closer to what he is. Does that mean we would hesitate to use him? Probably not. Does it mean it would be nice to keep him moving in a positive direction? Yes.
closer days move protect risk smart
It's really a smart move on his part because once you're in that closer role, there are days you just got to go, you got to risk it. But here we can protect him better. For him and for us it makes a lot of sense.
definitely face great guy knows type
When you face a guy who's been such a great teammate, and we have experienced so much together, it makes it a lot more personal. We know him, he knows us. It's definitely a different type of game.
against care command edge guy pushes regular roger season starts umpire whoever
When you go against a guy like Greg Maddux or a Roger Clemens, I don't care if it's a regular season game, is a guy with that kind of command and if he starts getting an edge he pushes and pushes it so it's up to whoever the umpire is,
gets help hitting hope key middle whatever wherever
We've got to get him going. He's one of our key guys, so whatever it takes. If hitting in the middle gets him going, then we'll do something else at second. I hope he gets it going, because he can help us wherever he hits.
dallas donate goes gotten national open saying sunday tour
We've just gotten so lucky. Like Gretchen saying she would help. She's going to do our show on Sunday night. On Monday, she goes to Dallas to open her first national tour as a headliner. That she would do this, donate her time, is incredible.
defense night runs saved stood win
We saved runs all night long. That's the way you had to win that game, because they had so many opportunities. Our defense stood out.
baseball celebrate magic number october officially seem understand
We understand we're officially in October baseball. It just doesn't seem right to celebrate when your magic number is one.
couple jim others sweet swings
Those two swings were sweet Jim Edmonds swings. A couple of others times, he probably put a little too much into it.
barely baseball club deserves good great last quality run season squeeze week win
What's different about this club, when you have this many setbacks, it's usually part of why you don't win or you barely squeeze by in the last week of the season with a good but not great record. To have this kind of run and play this quality of baseball for this long is why this club deserves a very different kind of credit.
decisions hoped
You hoped it would be complicated. We're going to have some decisions to make, which is good.
baseball chance dedicate key moment money point recognize special terrific
You have to recognize that you have a chance to have a special place in baseball history, so you're going about it for more than just the moment or the money or the stats or the attention. I think that will be the key for some of these really terrific young pitchers. You have to be really good, and at some point you have to dedicate yourself to your place in baseball history.
game houston magic object preference taken though win zero
We would have taken the zero even if Houston loses. The object is just to get (our magic number) to zero, ... If you have your preference though it's to win a game to get there.
adversity good guys left reason worked
When we've got into some kind of adversity, when we've had to go left or right, up or down, it's been good for us. And the reason that it's worked that way is that these guys have been very strong-minded, very tough-minded about not conceding anything.