Jermaine Dye
Jermaine Dye
Jermaine Trevell Dyeis a retired American Major League Baseball right fielder. Dye grew up in Northern California and was a multi-sport star at Will C. Wood High School in Vacaville. Dye attended Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, where he played as a right fielder on a team that reached the playoffs. Dye played with the Atlanta Braves, Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, and the Chicago White Sox. Dye won the World Series MVP with the White Sox in 2005. Dye...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth28 January 1974
CityVacaville, CA
It means a lot not only to us in the clubhouse but to the organization, the fans, the city. It's a great feeling. We're just happy to be able to bring a championship to the city of Chicago. It's really special.
It means a lot. He's been to the dance before. Not in baseball, but he knows this feeling. His heart and soul is in baseball and he's told me many times he'd trade all his rings for a World Series championship. We're not only doing it for the players first in the clubhouse, but for Jerry and Kenny and everybody else.
It's going to be tough to pick the ball up in the first three or four innings.
The first pitch, he threw me was a slider and I swung kind of too hard. Then he threw me another one for a ball and I stayed with my game plan. I didn't really try to do too much, just tried to hit it hard somewhere and found a hole up the middle.
You can sit back when you are old and gray and remember some of the good old days.
And from the start of spring training everybody was hungry. Everybody wanted to go out there and win together. Everybody was pulling on the same rope.
It didn't hit me. I turned, and he told me it hit me. When the umpire tells you to go to first base, you go to first base. I'm not going to tell him I fouled it off.
It hit my bat. I turned around and the umpire said it hit me. I'm not going to tell him I fouled it off.
I was just excited to be there, just having fun. You just never know if you're going to get that chance again, ... Nine years later, 10 years later or whatever, I think I kind of knew what it took to get back to the playoffs and win.
If you look at the replay, it shows it hit the bat, ... I can't argue with that. I'd tell you lies if I said it hit me.
It's been a long time since they've been in the World Series and won, ... And it means a lot, not only to us in the clubhouse but to the organization, to the fans, to the city, and it's just a great feeling. And we're just happy to be able to bring a championship to the city of Chicago, and it's really special.
It's a new year and he caught me when I was swinging good.
It just so happens that he hears stuff from what umpires say on certain calls like that,
It was kind of funny to me. When you come to an opposing team's ballpark and something happens that may have not gone their way, they'll let you know about it. He thought it was kind of funny. He said he's known now. I told him he could probably go to Hollywood now and become a movie star.