Tony Tavares Quotes (24 Quotes)


    The player wanted to play, so he has complicity in this for not listening to what the doctors told him. And baseball and the players union has complicity in this as well. Everybody that is involved in this decision should be ashamed of themselves.

    Honestly, most people in baseball would tell you that he went into a bad situation. He had a lot of money committed to players who weren't performing. A lot of people I know feel like he needs more time to put his plan in place.

    I was about to start having people call baseball.

    If I get into that game, everybody's going to have a different opinion,

    We want to re-establish that tradition. We understand that the National League has a commitment to opening the season in Cincinnati, but we'd like to share that tradition. The commissioner Bud Selig has been very supportive, and now he and Katy Feeney have to work out the logistics.


    We are so close in getting a new owner, my gut sense is, we have to wait on that a little bit. As I told you guys before, I have to work within certain limitations. There's nothing I can do about that. The new owner can write his own script. We have told Jose this. The owner doesn't have to fully take over, but we would like that person to talk to him about the contract.

    It's a look you often see in D.C. It feels like being cured after having a long illness. The good thing is we're healthy again. I anticipate this being a pitcher's park.

    I think he's done a good job, ... He's got a vision. He's got a plan, and he sticks with his plan. I think for all those reasons, and the fact that he's a very hard-working guy -- I'd stack him up with anybody in that GM's capacity -- he deserved this.

    This partnership will best serve the loyal fans in Washington, Maryland and Virginia. We are excited that all of our fans will be able to tune into our games from March until the season's last pitch.

    Is it disappointing Of course it is. I think it's a wonderful tradition. It's a big deal every year. Having him do this is a great tradition and I am sure if he could have done it, he would have. But as of now I think the answer is going to be no.

    I'm motivated and he's motivated to get a deal done. We'll see. He would love to get a deal done before Opening Day, but I can't promise that is going to happen. I promised him one thing I will not distract him with contract negotiations. I do think there's a way of continuing on after the season has started without distractions.

    We've got to get the accounting department here. We've had too many problems with getting bills paid, bills getting paid late, and what got lost in the mail between Montreal and here.

    You want to be selling good news. With this whole hullabaloo about the stadium and the uncertainly about the stadium, it provides a challenge. There's a pall over the franchise.

    He just hasn't been a big trader. He believes more in development. He doesn't make deals unless he is satisfied that he will at least break even.

    I can't hold anybody back, ... We've told our coaches, our manager, our GM that if there's a job that is available to you and you want to interview for it, you should. It would be inappropriate of me to be denying permission for teams to speak with our people.


    Does he belong on the disqualified list Our answer is yes. He is failing to perform his services. Never in the history of baseball has a player been able to pick his position.

    The Commissioner said that anyone who is saying he received a communication from him, indicating that someone has been selected is not telling the truth. He is baffled by where something like this might come from because he has not made a decision.

    The key issue for the new owner is acting with some certainty on some issues. He'll be able to act in a more decisive way than I can. It's time for people to get some certainty. I'm looking forward to it. I know most of my staff are looking forward to it.

    The average amount of guys to call up is something like five, ... I pushed back on Jim and said, 'Make sure you're calling up people that are going to be used.' If you bring up 11 guys, you start talking about changing the size of the chartered airplane and all kinds of things. Everybody, including the Yankees, has to have some kind of budget.

    I think that any new owner coming in here is crazy to try and change a general manager in the middle of a season. To be disappointed this quick, there would clearly be something wrong with the new owner.

    We're trying to be patient, ... But unless we start getting a sign real soon that a decision on an owner is imminent, I think you got to start moving on.

    If we don't start moving, we're going to be scraping the bottom of the barrel, ... You lose people every now and then if you wait.

    Jim is one of the hardest working general managers in the game and I have every confidence that he will improve our team this off-season while continuing to build a solid foundation that will yield a perennial winning franchise worthy of the great city of Washington.


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