Get Used To The Tribe
Get used to the type of intensity we saw in our opening series against Cleveland. I think you might be looking at the best two teams in the American League this year. We're both just as good as anybody. Last year, our club was 14-5 against the Indians and 9-1 at Jacobs Field. I don't think that's going to happen again, because it's just too good of a ballclub in Cleveland.
These teams get after it the right way. Take Casey Blake for example, who had a great day in right field yesterday with a bunch of running catches. He got a good jump each time and the only way to get that jump is by being in the ballgame. There's a lot of guys out there who go out to the outfield thinking about what stance they're going to use the next time at the plate or the popup, strikeout, or ground ball they had the last time up. As we've said so many times before, there are two games in baseball - the offensive one and the defensive one and you have to separate them. You can't let your offensive game dominate your thinking when you've got the leather on. It's a lesson all ballplayers need to remember.
Hawk
Comments
You can put that in the bank! But just one other item, Hawk: During the course of game 2 this year you said that it wasn't unusual for Opening Day to be sold out, but that you weren't sure that you could remember Game 2 being sold out before...did you mean in Chicago for the Sox, or anywhere? Remember, here in Cleveland we sold out 444 consecutive games...that's almost 5 Game 2s sold out in a row....
Posted by: frank kramer | April 10, 2006 4:37 PM