Ernie Whitt
Ernie Whitt
Leo Ernest "Ernie" Whittis a former Major League Baseball catcher and coach. He is noted for the twelve years he spent as a player with the Toronto Blue Jays. When he left the team following the 1989 season he was the last original Blue Jay left from when Toronto joined the major leagues in 1977. Ernie Whitt was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1997...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth13 June 1952
feels hopefully team
If he feels he can play then that's great. If he can't, then hopefully he'll be a part of this team in some capacity.
bit call tonight
I think tonight was a little bit of a wake-up call for us.
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People, especially in Canada, have been making a big thing out of the fact that we are opposing each other as managers. Buck is a close friend of mine. Canadian fans might consider the U.S. to be friendly rivals, but there's certainly no rivalry between Buck and myself.
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As a team we probably threw too many pitches. This is the first time they have thrown to hitters. Overall we were OK. We played errorless ball and swung the bats well.
basically capable expect game managers
Not really. Managers have tendencies, but you basically have to look at your personnel, what they're capable of doing or not doing and play the game by the book, what you would expect out of each individual, not so much out of their manager.
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It will be fun to oppose Buck. I feel there's probably more pressure on him than there is me, because the United States are expected to win and win the whole thing. We're just the sleepers and hopefully we'll go in and quietly beat them.
beating fate hands odds worse yesterday
We had our chances, we had our fate in our own hands and didn't come through with it. Anything can happen, you look at the odds and they are probably worse than us yesterday beating the U.S. but then that's why we play the game.
beat came credit fate hands
We had our fate in our own hands and we didn't come through with it. You have to give credit to Mexico; they came out and beat us.
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We didn't expect some of them to throw as many pitchers as they did. Some of the results were not the way we wanted it.
happy task
We can be happy right now but we still have a task at hand.
ahead enjoy few game moments win
We're going to enjoy this win for a few moments and we have a big game ahead of us (Wednesday).
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We have a veteran enough group and our guys compete with the guys we're going to be playing (Wednesday) on a daily basis. We're not in awe of the United States.
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Whenever you can beat a powerhouse like the U.S.A. it's a feather in Baseball Canada's history. We can be happy right now, but we still have a task at hand and after an hour or two, we'll focus in on Mexico.
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Whenever you can beat a powerhouse like the USA, it's a real feather for baseball in Canada's history.