Notes from the Dugout
These are quotes from the book "Tales from the Tigers Dugout". The third edition is out now, meaning you get more recent tales! I read the second edition which went through the 2012 season. Really great book for Tigers fans.
"Alan Tramell didn't really have a chance his last year. I've said it all along, if Guillen and Pudge and Ordonez are out of our lineup on a consistent basis, we wouldn't be worth anything, either. That's the way it is. But people don't want to hear that." ~ Jim Leyland
If tomorrow you could not play, how hard would you play today?
What's really scary with Cabrera is that he is getting better with plate discipline each year, making it harder for pitchers to let him retire himself, as Verlander suggested. (2012)
Who else would crouch down and manicure the mound each inning? Who else would talk to the ball or himself or anyone who would listen? And who else would throw balls back to the umpire with bizarre requests? "That ball has a hit in it," Fidrych said. "I want it to get back in the ball bag and goof around with the other balls in there. Maybe it'll learn some sense and come out as a pop-up next time."
A basic baseball truth: Players decide games. Managers dissect them. ~ Sparky Anderson
"Alan Tramell didn't really have a chance his last year. I've said it all along, if Guillen and Pudge and Ordonez are out of our lineup on a consistent basis, we wouldn't be worth anything, either. That's the way it is. But people don't want to hear that." ~ Jim Leyland
If tomorrow you could not play, how hard would you play today?
What's really scary with Cabrera is that he is getting better with plate discipline each year, making it harder for pitchers to let him retire himself, as Verlander suggested. (2012)
Who else would crouch down and manicure the mound each inning? Who else would talk to the ball or himself or anyone who would listen? And who else would throw balls back to the umpire with bizarre requests? "That ball has a hit in it," Fidrych said. "I want it to get back in the ball bag and goof around with the other balls in there. Maybe it'll learn some sense and come out as a pop-up next time."
A basic baseball truth: Players decide games. Managers dissect them. ~ Sparky Anderson
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