Jay Gibbons
Jay Gibbons
Jay Jonathan Gibbonsis a former American professional baseball right fielder in Major League Baseball. He played college baseball at California State University, Los Angeles and in the Major Leagues for the Baltimore Orioles and Los Angeles Dodgers. He attended Mayfair High School in Lakewood, California. He is the current hitting coach for the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the California League...
doubling guy hurting public ten
Doubling it is good. I think 10 is a little light. Ten you can get away with as a team. You can do without a guy for 10 days, but 20, you're kind of hurting your ballclub, too. Not just your own public scrutiny, but you're hurting your ballclub to win.
easiest
I just wanted to give him something. It was the easiest thing I could do. I wanted him to have something of mine.
anthem national singing
It's just one of those feel-good stories, singing the national anthem at the Oriole game.
explode good happened last nights picked win
This is one of the nights that we picked up our pitcher. There is going to be other nights where we're going to win 2-1 (and) they're going to have to pick us up. It was a good night to explode after what happened last night.
managing past
In a lot of ways, he was managing in the past. He just didn't have the title.
coming excited feeling good growing guys seeing stick
It's a good feeling to stick around and know you're going to be with these guys for a while. I'm excited about seeing the young guys coming up and growing with you.
couple left pitches tough
He was pretty tough tonight. He left a couple of pitches up and that was it.
april ball traveling
The ball was traveling well tonight. Usually in April it doesn't go anywhere. But 75 degrees, the ball was jumping.
clutch double game guy hit mess mind pitches second strikes thrown throws uses
First time, yes. Second time, no. He uses that too much, in the back of your mind you know he has that, it's one of those pitches you know you can double clutch and still hit it. If he hasn't thrown it all game and he has two strikes on a guy and he throws it up there, it's going to mess a guy up.
anytime asked bad contract free games given happened hard help home player rule year
Anytime a player is day-to-day like a Rule 5 player is, you can't help but take the bad games home with you. We asked for a contract in 2002 and 2003, but the Orioles weren't ready. If they had not given me a contract, I was going to play hard this year and see what happened in free agency.
reporters seen
We see reporters that we have never seen before,
asking national news reporters seen
We see reporters that we have never seen before. This is national news now. They're all asking the same question.
ball changes die hope last lets needed next playing policy problem step steroids worrying year
We have made significant changes to the policy in the last year and a half. We made the first step by ourselves, and we thought we needed to take the next step. We hope this lets things die down with Congress, because we want to end the problem now and get back to playing ball and not worrying about steroids every day.
ride
This probably is a little different, something new, ... I'll ride it as long as I can.