If you're focused on places you want to be down the road, you're not focusing on the task at hand.

He had the best slider I've seen him have in four years. It looked like a fastball before you swung, then it just dropped.

What can I say,

Tonight, it looked like a fastball, ... and as soon as you swung, the bottom dropped out of it.

Maybe they've just got the itch when it comes to Tigers pitching. I can't figure it out. I'm waiting for them to go into a slump against us, for crying out loud.

They gave him a standing O (ovation) when he went out onto the field the next inning.