Phil Garner
Phil Garner
Philip Mason Garneris an American former baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as an infielder with the Oakland Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants from 1973 to 1988. He was manager of the Astros from July 14, 2004 to August 27, 2007, leading Houston to a World Series appearance in 2005...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth30 April 1949
CityJefferson City, TN
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The misfortunes created by some situations can turn out to be pretty good for you, and in this case Craig leading off is a good situation. I don't mind having to do that at all.
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As far as the players were concerned, we thought he was fantastic. He was tough but he was always fair and this was a first-class organization when he was here.
according bottom kids league learned offensive ranked several veterans
The young kids haven't learned how to do it. They pitched around several of our veterans (last year) to get to the young kids. According to my statistical analysis, we were ranked at the bottom of the league in most all offensive categories.
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They have labored long and hard and suffered so much, ... They are the reason fans in Houston have gotten into baseball so much.
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They have guys that can get on base, they have guys that can hit the ball out of the ballpark and hit for a high average. So they are not an easy club to have to face and they are not an easy club to defend.
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They have beaten us up pretty badly this year. They have really thumped us pretty good. Just as a matter of pride, we would not want to see them celebrate here again. We'd like to change that.
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They have beaten us up pretty badly this year, ... They have really thumped us pretty good. Just as a matter of pride, we would not want to see them celebrate here again. We'd like to change that.
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They got the clutch hits. They played fundamentally sound and got the ball in the air.
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We've struggled so much in getting the runner in from third with less than two outs, so it obviously felt good doing that. I think it took the pressure off everybody. Might have led to the three-run homer, too.
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The fact of the matter is, he gave up a pretty monstrous home run, ... Best thing we can do is laugh about it, go on with it to the next day and have a little bit of fun with it.
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We're a team in a little bit of a transition. But I still expect us to contend. And I didn't even expect us to contend for the pennant last year.
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We're a team and an organization that expects to win. That's the mantra from our owner and, I think, from our front office, too.
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We have to play that last out, and we couldn't get the last out. It's one of the things that makes our game great. As Yogi (Berra) would say, 'It's not over till it's over' and it certainly wasn't over.
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We didn't take them for granted, we just didn't show up offensively today. Some days we're going to get them and some day we're not.