You get up, you go to first base, you come back up and hit against the guy the next time and you do some damage with the bat. Those days are over.
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Brooks never impressed me because you were accustomed to him making the plays. This kid reminds me a lot of Brooks on those plays. Brooks owned those things. Brooks was very good on those slow rollers coming in.Frank Robinson
Pretty soon, if we don't right the ship, it's going to be too late. The early stuff is over with. You wait and wait and wait, and it continues and continues and continues, so you try something else.
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A rivalry has to be cultivated. This, in time, could be.
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He may come back from this and be able to compete. But if they go in there and operate, he's done for the season. If it does work, we'll lose him for a month or so, and that's about it. Maybe two months at the most, but you would have him for the rest of the season if he holds up, which is another gamble. It's worth the gamble to try this first.
Frank Robinson
He'll listen to anything I tell him. But I don't know how someone will react in the heat of the battle. All I can do is reason with him and tell him what I think.
Frank Robinson
We're doing it for the season. We didn't ask him to do it for today, that's not the answer we wanted.
Frank Robinson
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