It stands to reason, Brian Giles , 34, would like to stay in San Diego. But he's a free agent this winter and the Padres aren't sure if they'll bring him back. If the Indians' offense doesn't rebound in the last four months of the season, they'll be looking for hitters this winter. What would Giles say if they looked his way He'd be interested. My time is running out and I want to win, ... They have a lot of good young players over there.
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Then in the upper class, it was Aaron Brooks and the Stewart twins and Marvin Williams and C.J. Giles. Wow, that's a lot to work with. If you get your fair share of guys, you're going to wind up pretty good.
Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.
It is not a comfort zone as Chris Read and Graham Thorpe discovered, players do get dropped. But rookies get a run first and changes are usually made with a view to the long term. The team have thus been able to grow together and bond. The side Giles came into was a wary one with some players playing primarily for themselves, an inevitable consequence of chop-and-change team selection. Now they are a team. It's a completely different atmosphere to '98, ... It's much more professional and we are much more together. I found it quite tricky in '98. No disrespect to anyone in that side, because players made me feel welcome, but it was very disjointed. Now we are basically another county team. We know each other that well. We've played that much cricket together.
That'll give (Giles) two days to freshen up.
I remember in Sri Lanka watching the Rugby World Cup final with Michael Vaughan and Ashley Giles,
It is obviously disappointing to lose Ashley Giles, our most experienced spin bowler. At the same time, it is a great opportunity for the three guys here.
My head is spinning. I just felt terrible overall, but you have to really give our training staff credit. And look at Giles. He's the gamer. Giles is the guy who really came through here.
I was as big as I could be, ... I did whatever possible. I can't really predict when a guy's going to bounce the ball in front of the plate, then kill you with the speed like Giles did.
This amounts to a profit warning ... and it's hard to avoid connecting (Alan Giles' departure) with the profit warning. My reaction would be to cut 20 million pounds off my (pre-tax) profit forecast to 90 million pounds.
This guy is an awesome closer with a good fastball, good location and a great changeup, ... I was just hoping he'd make a mistake up and over the plate that I could hit hard. When I hit it, I was just hoping it would get up over (Giles') head. A home run would have been a bonus.
Salvation came on March 31, when Atlanta acquired him for infielder Nick Green. Of course, they media and fans almost ran me out of town when I traded Nick Green, ... Nick did a great job for us at second last year. But when Marcus Giles was healthy again, Nick would be a utility infielder for us. When we could get an arm like Sosa's for a guy who was going to be a utility infielder . . .
Giles said. ''We've got it now. With these young guys we have the intensity that we need. It's almost like we're 10 years old playing Little League again, but winning is more important now.
Giles actually put something else in my coconut to learn from. He ran like somebody was chasing him.
The question must be ... whether anyone could run it better than Alan Giles. Thus, there must be some doubt as to a bid emerging.
Maybe, though, there is in this compliment the seed of Giles' only doubt about the sweep of Haynes' career. I just wish, ... he had been stretched a little more. If he had gone to say Tottenham, as he might have done, we might have seen an even harder edge to his talent as he pushed for major honours. As it was, he was the King of Fulham, and sometimes I wanted him to push a little harder to leave that comfort zone.