Jeff Francoeur
Jeff Francoeur
Jeffrey Braden Francoeur, nicknamed "Frenchy", is an American professional baseball right fielder for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball. He has also played for the New York Mets, Texas Rangers, Kansas City Royals, San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres, and the Philadelphia Phillies...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth8 January 1984
CityAtlanta, GA
bobby fans fires gets love seemed
Bobby always fires us up. You know how the fans are with Bobby, they love him to death. When he gets going, they get going. It just seemed perfect.
hurt tender
Doc said I was real lucky. About a centimetre over it could have been broken, so I feel fortunate. It hurt bad. At first, it's such a tender bone, it just hurt so much.
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If it weren't for Phillip Wellman I wouldn't be here right now. He's the one who got me going, taught me about patience at the plate and who showed me how to work. You'd go out there some afternoons in Pearl and it would seem like 180 degrees in that cage, but that's what it takes.
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So we didn't want to watch any -- we watched a little bit of the Yankees game, but we didn't want to watch any highlights of our game or anything.
earn home knew win
We wanted to be able to win on our home field, ... We knew we had it, but at the same time, we wanted to earn it.
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What was impressive was that we fought back. Even a couple of times we had runners at first or second, we hit into a couple of double plays, we were still able to come back and do what we needed to do and that's promising.
front guys pitcher rather rookie
When you've got guys like Andruw (Jones), Chipper (Jones), Julio (Franco) and Marcus (Giles) in front of you, you have some RBI chances. A pitcher doesn't want to pitch to those guys. He'd rather pitch to a rookie any day.
guys knock people won
We've won 14 in a row, and people always want to knock you off. You use that as motivation. You don't want to be the guys who lose.
honor
It's an honor playing for Bobby Cox.
trying different certain
I'm a different hitter than Chipper Jones. He goes up looking for certain pitches to hit. I go up there looking for something over the plate and try to hit it hard.
team mean nuts
When we [the Braves] won the World Series in '95, I went nuts. I mean, that was my team.
next-day games one-day
One day, you're 11 games, 12 games out, and the next day you're in first!
behind believe dugout nobody
When we got behind 8-0, nobody in the dugout could believe it.
earn knew
We knew we had clinched in the sixth, ... But we wanted to win. We wanted to earn it.