Dusty Baker Quotes on Games (9 Quotes)

Guys get a chance to get more rest. You play most of your games on the road at night. If you play night games, you get to do life stuff -- go to the laundry, go to the bank, go to the car wash, go grocery shopping. Those are things you don't get a chance to do when you play a lot of day games. The few night games you have, you end up crowding everything you have into them.

Competition sometimes will make you sharper than you believe you are. Anybody who watched those games, you could tell it was serious competition.

We certainly have to improve at home. We didn't seem to have the team we wanted at home, and guys sometimes have a difficult time adjusting to Chicago and a majority of day games.

With more night games at home, You get to do 'life stuff,' like go to the laundry, go to the bank, go to the car wash, go shopping, ... Things you don't get a chance to do when you're playing day games. You're always conscious here of oversleeping because you can wake up in a panic, especially if it's cloudy and dark outside, and you're like, 'Oh, man.' Or if it gets sunny real early, you're jumping out of bed at 6 o'clock.

I talked to Lawton last night, and he said this is the first time he's been in a playoff situation. He's looking forward to it, and he told me he was sorry he didn't help us and play better while he was here. I told him to enjoy it -- he picked up a lot of games in the standings.

Ain't nothing on hold. These games are going to go on regardless. They're going to go into the record, wins and losses, regardless. You wish you could stop time, but I'm looking at that clock and that second hand's still ticking.

It hurts us not to play Friday night games. We got home late Thursday from Puerto Rico and had to play a day game the next day on the 12th. We can get home at 1 o'clock not fall asleep until two and have to be back up at eight while the other team has been here. They are in bed before we even get home.

I'm seeing a fresh start to me. I've got a pretty good idea, watching him hit, of his strengths and weaknesses. When the games start, I'll get an even better idea. The thing I don't know yet is, is he a fast starter Slow starter It's like with D-Lee -- how many at-bats does he need

Our greatest cause of concern would be day-after-night games,