Dusty Baker Quotes on World (7 Quotes)

No. 1, you have to make sure he's OK so this thing doesn't linger all year long. Fortunately for us, he did get some at-bats during the World Baseball Classic and the fact that he did pretty well shows he's not that far off. He saw better quality pitching in that than he would down here. It was to his advantage and ours that he did play.

Baseball's not separate from the world. (Racism) is real. Nobody wants to talk about it. You don't hear guys talk in depth too much, especially minority guys, because you get accused of playing the race card.

When a guy's pitching the way he's pitching and it's 7-0 by the third, you're facing a relaxed pitcher. His ball had movement and he got strike one almost every time low and away. He pitched a heck of a game. That 7-0 lead made all the difference in the world to him.

One good memory I have here is in 2002, we beat the Cardinals to go to the World Series. They've had some great teams here. They usually have a lot of speed. I'm curious to see what happens. Sometimes you change stadiums, change atmosphere, and it changes things.

He doesn't appear that concerned. I think we stopped it in time. It helped that he didn't play in the World Baseball Classic after March 12 and didn't do any more damage to it.

You want to beat them. You don't like to look bad on TV, especially in Chicago. You don't want to make it the World Series when it's not, but it's very important. You always want to beat the Sox.

He's ahead of schedule where he would be normally at this time because he knew what he had to do to get ready for the World Baseball Classic. We'll keep an eye on him.