Ryan Howard couldn’t hit me right now if I was running across the plate.
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| — | Bobby Valentine |
Jimmy Rollins: “Of course we’re going to win, ”If we’re nice we’ll let it go six (games), but I’m thinking five. Close it out at home. I think it would be very tough to take four. You figure one game they’re going to find a way to win, That’s the way it is.”
Jorge Posada: “He’s been Nostradamus, that’s what I heard, He’s been (making) a lot of good predictions, so we’ve got to take that away from him.”
Derek Jeter: “He predicted we’d play them in the World Series about seven years ago, too, You make enough predictions, I guess you’d be right most of the time, right?”
Ryan Howard: “That’s just Jimmy, ”He loves that spotlight. He loves putting that type of - I guess I don’t want to say pressure - but just putting that kind of attention on himself and on our team. Obviously, with those comments, you know here in Yankee Stadium, you know they’re going to be all over him. And you know what? He wants that. He relishes that moment.”
Chase Utley: “I think if this one sticks I think I’ll take him to Vegas with me,”
Feuds in Play Today
- Pedro Martinez vs. Tommy Lasorda: Pedro hates Tommy for trading him away, and then for saying he was too frail to succeed in baseball long-term.
- Jayson Werth vs. Ned Colletti: Colletti non-tendered Werth at the end of the 2006 season, letting him go rather than facing arbitration.
- Matt Kemp vs. Charlie Manuel: Manuel left Kemp off the All-Star team in favor of his own outfielders.
- Vicente Padilla vs. the Phillies organization: They traded him for a player-to-be-named later, who never pitched for Philadelphia in the majors.
- Joe Torre vs. Pedro Martinez: Not for his pitching against the Yankees, but for bodyslamming former Torre bench coach Don Zimmer. If a bench-clearing brawl happens this year, we expect Pedro to go after Manny Mota.
- Larry Bowa vs. the Phillies/ Phillies vs. Larry Bowa: They fired him; he didn’t come within ten games of first place after his first season.
- Tommy Lasorda vs. The Philly Phanatic: There’s been a lot of bad blood in the past.
