Dusty Baker Quotes on Home (9 Quotes)

Guys tell me they sleep on the road a lot easier and better than they do at home, ... At home, you end up waking at 700 in the morning because you're used to getting up early. On the road, you're not worried about sleeping in and missing batting practice. You're always conscious here of oversleeping. You don't want to wake up in a panic, especially if it's cloudy or dark outside. If it gets sunny early, you're jumping out of bed and it could be 6 o'clock.

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.

You've got bases loaded, nobody out and don't get anybody home, and you've got first and third earlier in the fifth and a double play erased that, ... It was very symbolic of our season. It seems like we get in that situation and we don't get anything out of it. It's very frustrating. I thought we had a great chance to win that ballgame right there.

My wife Melissa talked to his mom, and she said he led every league coming up in home runs. The main thing is, he puts the ball in play, makes contact and gets hits. He's ahead of most guys already.

I've known guys who go home early and, especially when you don't go to the postseason, it makes for a long, long winter, ... That extra month at home, you start getting ready to go back in December.

I don't want to use them every day, so I hope we get the starters to go deep pretty soon. The bullpen is shored up, but we have to do what we can until our big boys Mark Prior , Kerry Wood and Wade Miller get back. Hopefully it will be better when we get home.

We certainly have to improve at home.

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.