I thought about Grissom and the admiration I had for him as a teammate in Milwaukee. I loved the way he played.

He’ll get his share of home runs. He’ll start to roll.

It was up in the air whether Barry would do this. We asked him this morning. It was almost embarrassing to have him do it.

He’s the glue of our team. I’ve said that all along. Spare parts are very important, but he’s the one cog we can’t really miss. He’ll make any contract look reasonable.

Seeing Paul go is a really tough loss for us. It’s tough to take because of the person and teammate he has been.

It’s not just being aggressive. It’s the whole package from top to bottom of attentiveness, of sensitivity, of response, of timeliness, of understanding (prospects) and their business.

It’s almost like hitting for me. It’s hard for me to accept in a sense. I want to make the plays. But it’s not something to be concerned about. I’ve just got to do more...

He’s done it for years so good and so effortlessly. To me, he’s the best player in the game. Having him on the field makes us that much better, and if it is his last...

He can throw a good one. He almost took my head off today. I didn’t know where it was going. But in a game? He’d get killed. It’s one thing to play catch. It’s another...

I know we’re talking about it because of our record, but it’s also a case where I don’t think we’re going to fear who we play because their record is better than ours.

He’s the glue that holds this team together.

He’s a quiet guy. He wants to take it all in. A lot of these guys coming up are spoon-fed how good they are even before they have success, and he’s the total opposite.

It’s not the end of the world. It’s a weird night.

I don’t look at it like other people say, like it’s a distraction. You kidding? It’s great to have him around. It definitely sets the tone.

That’s the first I’ve heard of it. Hopefully he’ll be OK.

That’s pretty stupid. But it’s just a select few fans who would do something like that. I don’t think it’s indicative of everyone.

We have some special 40-year-olds here. We don’t have the normal 40-year-olds that can’t run around.

We hang in there. It hasn’t always been fun. It hasn’t always been pretty. But we’ve answered every challenge. We stayed on top. We deserve to be division champions.

But the atmosphere here is good — hopefully this turns into a story of us doing well.

There aren’t many players you can build a team around. I see Brian as one. Teams are looking for those guys. When you already have one . ‘ . ‘ .

He didn’t have his best stuff, but he still kept his team in the game. If you have a young pitcher like that, that’s really valuable.

It’s very special to see a kid like Cain. There’s going to be pressure on him to perform, and I think he’s up for it. He’s got great poise.

That’s how special he is. I don’t know if you saw my ball, but it would have been out at Williamsport. I squared it up. I’m just playing on the wrong field.

Steve Finley, having him as a fourth outfielder is a luxury that a lot of teams don’t have. Obviously he’s not a fourth outfielder but that’s what you have to pencil him in as.

I think that’s what’s become the disappointment for us, the way we’ve been playing, because we’ve brought the other teams back into the mix as opposed to pushing ourselves away.

Our division is something that we should be competitive in.

We are winning the one-run ball games and especially the close games in the ninth inning and that’s a boost. However, we need to learn how to hold leads a little bit better and make...

You realize he can basically do what he wants because he’s earned it.

That’s the thing we focus on as teammates in the dugout. We’re amazed that he can channel that out as well as he does. At times, it can get real vicious. I wouldn’t want to...

There was one black cloud hanging over this win and that is the departure of Quantrill. He brought a lot more to the table than his throwing. He had been to where we hope to...

If it is his last year, having the opportunity to play with the best player in the game is pretty special, when you think about it. We’re his teammates, but we’re fans of what he...

We don’t look at it as struggle. We look at it as a victory. We won the West. That was our first job. The next goal is to win the next one.

It’s attention you know is going to happen. It’s easy to go about our business every day and do our job. It’s not a big deal. But the atmosphere here is good — hopefully this...

It’s a tradition, really, when a brother falls to support the house where he was from.

What we’ve got to do is bring the magic of May to October. We did it once. Who knows?

I think we’ve had a bunch of new guys and learned to kind of change the atmosphere around here. We’ve had fun, but we’re doing a lot of work and getting stuff done. That’s the...

That’s crap. Whoever did that should be embarrassed.

It was beautiful. We all wanted him to do it, hit the home run and break the ice. We all know he has the ability. It’s pretty funny to hear people say he doesn’t have...

As a visiting player, that’s all we talked about. We’re a better team when he’s out there.