Geoff Blum
Geoff Blum
Geoffrey Edward Blumis an American former professional baseball infielder in Major League Baseball and current part-time announcer for the Houston Astros. During his major-league career, he played for the Montreal Expos, Houston Astros, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, San Diego Padres, Chicago White Sox and Arizona Diamondbacks. As a member of the World Series Champion White Sox in 2005, he hit the game-deciding home run in the longest contest in the history of the Fall Classic...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth26 April 1973
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Tenacity. We're great guys in the clubhouse, but when the game starts we turn into a bunch of angry individuals.
deserved game good guys hit hopefully keeping loose weeks
This game is very humbling. To go the first two weeks without a hit. The guys had a good time, keeping things loose and I deserved to get that first hit ball. Hopefully it's one of many more to come.
high somebody watching
I didn't know if I got it high enough. Somebody was watching out for me.
kicked lost
He can keep it now. As long as we keep going like this, we'll be all right. If we'd lost the first two games, I would've kicked him out.
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The brutal honesty that he brings to the game and to the clubhouse is why we play so hard. He's going to tell you when you're doing great, and he's going to tell you when you screwed up and did something wrong. He's intense. He's passionate. I don't think anything changed from the days when he was a player. That's a huge bonus for us. He's as animated on the field as he is off. Guys feed off that energy that he has.
dreams imagined stuff
It's the stuff dreams are made of. If you imagined a dream, that's it.
high innings sit
You sit around for 14 innings and something like that happens. I didn't know if I got it high enough.
ball figure glad good looking past took weeks
I was just looking for a ball in the zone. It took me a good two weeks to figure it out but I'm glad I did. Fortunately the 14th inning was good to me in the past and it was good for me tonight.
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The way we win ballgames over here is to score just enough runs to stay ahead of the other team and beat them.
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Bags and Biggio. Anybody who stays with one team that long and puts that kind of investment into a city deserves to represent that city and that team in the World Series.
baseball decent faced helping knowing
That's helping me keep my sanity, knowing I faced decent pitchers.
ball beat steps tag took
The ball beat me by about two steps as I was going down to slide. I took a chance, hesitated a little bit. Fortunately, (Rodriguez) went for a swipe tag and that let me get in there.
defending
Who wouldn't want to play for the defending world champions?
bodies came card eventually gets guy last man marked names near running seeing
You keep seeing names getting marked off and marked off the lineup card and eventually it gets down to the last guy on the totem pole. I was near the bottom. We were running out of bodies on the bench. It came down to the last man standing.