John Gibbons
John Gibbons
John Michael Gibbonsis an American former professional baseball player and the current manager of the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball. Gibbons briefly played in the Major Leagues as a catcher with the New York Mets, in the mid-1980s...
chance couple everywhere last umpires
All the umpires are going to do that. If you get a chance to get the last couple outs, they're going to try to get it in. Everywhere I've ever been they'll do that.
change life-changing darkness-within
If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.
dog tired eye
... We have seen dog-tired Members of Congress marching lockstep ahead with their eyes fixed only on the end of the 100 Days of the 1995 Republican 'Contract with America' reform efforts. Many of the changes wrought by the House were passed without the benefit of a single hearing, or at best with a minimal legislative record. Is this what Jefferson and Madison had in mind?
two different management
There are two differing approaches and they have different virtues, the method of talent management and recruitment.
party priorities political
The United States is in the midst of many spirited political debates about national priorities and public spending... However, we have found that science is an area where both political parties can find common ground, and in which political change does not necessarily create discontinuities.
heard kid
The kid was dynamite. That's all you can say. Everything you heard about him he did tonight.
figure good guys longer pitching stuff
The longer you're around, guys see you enough, you figure some guys out. They've got good arms, they've got the stuff to get guys out regardless. It's all about locating and pitching ahead.
elbow knows
It could be his forearm, and it could be his elbow. We don't know. He has had that elbow reconstructed in the past, so he knows his body.
early fastball looked
I thought Wright looked really good. It looked like he got his fastball back. We didn't see that early in the year.
affected ball baseball credit giving good influences last outside proved
I think the baseball world is not giving them as much credit as they deserve. They're a good ball club, they proved that last year, just too many outside influences affected them.
caught couple good played runs scratched
We played a good ballgame. We scratched a couple runs and caught the big break.
caught couple good played runs scratched
We played a good ballgame, ... We scratched a couple runs and caught the big break.
afraid common everybody experience gets good great love maybe run time together work
I think that's common knowledge. Maybe not, but it's going to be soon. Great experience -- they love to work and everybody gets along. You'll run into some staffs where everybody doesn't see eye-to-eye and there's a little separation. With this group, everybody has a good time together and we're not afraid to disagree.
add came few hoping improve key last previous
I think they all know the expectations. The last few years that I've been here, you came in just hoping you would improve on the previous year. ... This year, we made some key additions, and you add that to what we did last year, and there's some optimism.