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46 quotes found searching on Team: Orioles
In frustration [after a strikeout], I whacked myself on the head with my bat in the ninth. I had my helmet on. It's something I've done a million times, but I still can't tell you for sure if that was it. But that's the only thing that I can point to because that night and the next morning, I just didn't feel good. So it's been going on since then. I just have some lack of balance and some headaches, and just stuff that hasn't been a whole lot of fun. It's a lesson to myself, a lesson to the kids to not do that, no matter how frustrated you are.
10/05/2010
Brian Michael Roberts
Baltimore Orioles
2B
The cheering you hear is from Oriole fans. Everybody else is in muted silence. The pitch! Line drive! Ripken catches it at shortstop! And the Orioles are champions of the world!
Jon Wesley Miller
Baltimore Orioles
Radio play-by-play announcer
Boy, there's so many variables involved in the equation that you can't even discuss it, almost. It's not like there's nobody on base every time -- there's guys in scoring position, nobody out, crowd's going crazy. You think, "OK, I screwed up, we can't go with A. What's B, what's C, what's D?"
Who's hitting? Is he hot or cold? Where are the base runners? What's the situation? Where are we in the game? Are we on the road? Are we at home? Is it nighttime? Is it daytime? What has he done the other two at-bats? Let's say it's the seventh inning. Where he's at in the box? How'd he look taking that pitch, or how'd he look fouling that pitch off?
There's all these things going on in your head. And then you take in all this outside input and say to yourself, "Yeah -- but I don't feel good with that pitch." Because your brain tells you, "Look, you should throw this," but I haven't thrown one of those for a strike in four innings. Eventually you just have to have enough balls to say, "Screw it, I've got to do it the way I should do it, and whatever happens, happens." I can't just throw fastballs because he knows I don't have a good enough changeup today, or he knows I don't feel good with my slider today. He doesn't really know that. All he knows is that I have these five pitches I can throw. He doesn't really know that I don't feel good about this one. He may know that I don't look like I have great command because I have three walks already and I usually don't walk anybody, but he doesn't know that I don't feel good with my changeup -- so let's throw it anyway.
That's the kind of stuff you think about, and it's not planned. It's just experience. You just have to do it. But there's so many variables. We could talk for months about variables when you're trying to figure out what to throw.
Michael Cole "Mike" Mussina
Baltimore Orioles
P
a.k.a. "Moose"
I don't understand how anyone hits a baseball. You play golf and the damned thing is sitting there and all you've got to do is hit it, and that's hard enough.
Baltimore Orioles
Manager
You've got to concentrate on each play, each hitter, each pitch. All this makes the game much slower and much clearer. It breaks it down to its smallest part. If you take the game like that -- one pitch, one hitter, one inning at a time, and then one game at a time -- the next thing you know, you look up and you've won.
Baltimore Orioles
Catcher
a.k.a. "The Dipper"
What makes a good manager is baseball judgement -- knowing what you're looking at.
Baltimore Orioles
Manager
HOF 1996
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