“It makes sense. I'll get a couple more rounds of BP and some more ground balls. I'll run on the treadmill to slowly but surely get up to a certain speed just to get some juice back.”
“It's very important for me to do well as the No. 2 guy. It's where I feel the most comfortable, and I take a lot of pride in it, especially with Sean Casey , Jason Bay and Jeromy Burnitz behind me. If I go 0 for 3 and move the runner over three times, I had a pretty good day.”
“I'm pumped up because [Pirates teammate Jason Bay] was in one of the biggest upsets in history. That was awesome. For Canada to make it to the next round is pretty awesome. Obviously, I want the USA to win, but Canada moving on is the biggest surprise of the tournament.”
“This is the team they've spent money on. It's a good lineup. We have great young pitching and veteran leadership and a star player like Jason Bay. We have the team to make a move this year. We have the team to do it.”
“That's really unacceptable. That's the ball I want hit to me every time. To make that bad a throw, there is nothing anybody can do about that. That ended up costing us the game.”
“There is nothing you can say (to the fans). We just have to show them. They've been at this for 13 years. I've been at it for five. But if we keep on playing like we're playing, we're going to be fine.”
“You just have to take the positives. We haven't played that bad. It was nice to get the first one. We didn't want to go home 0-7. We didn't want to go home 1-6 either.”
