Mike Scioscia quote: "This is out of the blue. Everything you could have messed up, we messed up out there. These guys have played terrific defense all year, so it's very uncharacteristic."

He keeps getting finer and finer with his stuff. Although he's not throwing as hard as he once did, ...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

We've talked about that for awhile, ... It's something we'll continue to look at very closely. ... H...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

The opportunities and the game situation are going to tell the eventual tale of how many attempts he...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

His last 20 at-bats or so, he's really seeing the ball well. And tonight? You can't square up a ball...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

One thing that kept us afloat and kept our sanity was the way we were pitching and playing defense, ...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

He laid off some pitches to get in some hitting counts, and when he got a pitch to hit, he was on it...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

We're seeing a steady progression with Bart, but Escobar is going through the roof. He's ready. He's...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

We're going to need Tim and it was good to see him square one up.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Bart has been a little stiff the last couple of days. It started to knot up in the sixth and I said ...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

The last month of the season I think there were a lot of similarities that started to manifest in ou...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

We had a lot going. We took some good swings this series. To do it against a staff like the White So...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Give him credit. We had some opportunities, but he made some pitches and shut the door.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

We're going to have to face him (eventually), we don't look at it as catching a break. There is no d...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

I don't think there's one thing you can hang your hat on and say you won or lost with. The two walks...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

It puts Bartolo in a special plateau of pitchers. I haven't seen that many pitchers that can throw i...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

We didn't have a lot of options. We're going to absorb this one. We'll be on a flight in a couple ho...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Domination is not even a word that's in anybody's vocabulary. This game with its twists and turns co...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

We feel we have a good young arm going against those guys, and the only way you're going to beat pit...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

He didn't really pitch deep into the game against the Yankees. He's done it before this year, and he...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

That Tampa Bay team, the way they played in the second half [37-30 since the All-Star break], they c...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

He's almost playing second base there. It's probably a little different approach (to the ball), but ...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Guys who relied on them are going to have to find alternative solutions. Obviously, some players hav...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

That was a key with Gregg. Paul Byrd wasn't sharp tonight, but he went as far as he could. I think K...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

It was a swing. Our catcher caught it. Doug Eddings called him out and somewhere along the line, bec...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

His fastball command was a little erratic, but the velocity was good.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

He is about command as much as he is about velocity. If you had one you had to do without, it would ...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

His fastball command was a little erratic, but the command on his offspeed pitches was there, and hi...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

There's been no indication that there is any damage in there that would impact him moving forward. B...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

I just saw Steve last winter when his son was pitching against my son. Everything was looking up for...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

John Lackey is probably the biggest story. He was terrific for eight innings.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

It was obvious that his command was off. He certainly has some things he's got to clean up.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

You might have to go back to Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, that group [of mid-'60s Dodgers], or the gr...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

This is the most balanced bullpen we've ever had. This pen is the deepest we've had here.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

These guys know what it's about. They know once they get things going offensively, this thing turns ...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

A three-run lead in the Grand Canyon isn't safe with that club. They do a great job of pressuring yo...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Tim Salmon, his groin got a little bit tight. Francisco, a little cramp in his hamstring.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

We want to fold Jeff in there and see how he's going to adapt. We didn't put any concrete numbers on...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

That's a tough lineup, and you have to make pitches in good locations to get them out. I think he go...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Domination is not even a word that's in anybody's vocabulary,
MIKE SCIOSCIA

John did something that he hasn't done since last year. He would bend but not break. He was good in ...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Our game has not surfaced, ... It's not a matter of choking; it's just a matter of playing our style...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

We can't look at the standings. If we play the way we are capable of playing, we will reach our goal...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

The way he carried himself on the field, the little things he did made a difference in what his pitc...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

For him to contribute offensively, it is going to be huge for our club. I think we're going to depen...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

The only way to overcome this is to grind it out. There's no easy fix. We're a good club and we'll g...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

A three-run lead in the Grand Canyon with that club is not a safe lead. But our guys, when they had ...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

When you're not swinging the bats well you look flat. Our club was ready to go. We had a lot of ener...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Guys who used them are going to have to find alternative solutions.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

That might have been the best five starts any team could have gotten in any series.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Against Detroit, I don't know if he was a little psyched up and he was maybe overthrowing a little b...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Incredible. You could sense that was something special as soon as it happened.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

He called him out, and that's what's disappointing. When he rings him up with a fist, he's out.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Vlad has had some stretches occasionally where hits haven't fallen in. But he's the type of hitter t...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

I wouldn't say we're concerned, but ... his command was off and sometimes that's a sign of weariness...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Our starting rotation has been the heartbeat of our club,
MIKE SCIOSCIA

We kept waiting for him to show the wear and tear,
MIKE SCIOSCIA

It started with the leadoff walk to Cora and the walk to Damon. Those two are things you can't do ag...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

He pitched a terrific ball game. He matched four of our pitchers with what he did.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

The hitter can take off, but as a catcher when an umpire calls him out, rings him up with a fist, he...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

They've got a lot of left-handed hitters over there, so we wanted to make sure we had a presence the...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

We can't get into a slugfest with these guys. We have to manufacture. We have to run the bases hard,...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

That is unwarranted that he got tossed. An opposition batter charges the mound and our pitcher gets ...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

I don't think anything is grim in the clubhouse, ... (The players) know that once we getting going o...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

It's too early to really know how to pitch him, and I think you saw that with our pitchers.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Ervin made his pitches and was ahead on the count on just about everyone he faced.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

I don't think the umpiring in this game is why we're behind 3-1.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Finley's been swinging the bat a lot better, ... It's good to see him chip in.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

When you're not swinging the bats well, you look flat.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

We wouldn't rule him out as a DH because he can swing the bat.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

John wasn't out there and wasn't awful, but he obviously wasn't as crisp as we had seen him and as c...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

The last 48 hours have been a blur.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

We won't know for a couple days, but we don't anticipate him missing a start.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

The White Sox execute small ball probably better than anybody in our league,
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Jeff has had some rough edges but has gotten his feet on the ground. There is not enough of a sample...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Walks are an offensive weapon, [but] there's a lot of things that add up to offense. I'm concerned w...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

A muddy track is not something that works in our favor. I think we need to run the bases, we need to...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Our goal is to have every catcher relate to every pitcher. I don't think there is anything getting i...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

He is flat-out over anxious. He has come out of his game a little bit and maybe put more into his sw...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

This game, this series, was a microcosm of the whole season. [The players] kept their composure the ...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

This game, with its twists and turns, could have gone either way for the whole nine innings. It coul...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

He's a special pitcher. If you look at what he's accomplished from the middle of last year till now,...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Fin's very frustrated, ... We're all very frustrated with the year Fin's having. No one feels it mor...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Bedard did a nice job of getting out of some jams after we had some guys in scoring positions. He th...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

(Lackey) wasn't as sharp as we've seen him, ... He threw a lot of pitches early, and then he settled...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

These last 48 hours have been a blur. We were fortunate to hold on.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

We absorbed non-production from some guys the best we could,
MIKE SCIOSCIA

We want to make sure that when Bart gets back on the mound, he's ready to be there for a long time.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

We'll see how things set up. There are things we're looking at. Certainly we want to give Bart as ma...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

We did a nice job on the mound against a deep lineup.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

Wash is a little green behind the gills, still, but he's going to be OK.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

That is not necessarily a good thing and not necessarily a bad thing at this point of the season. Th...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

He fought off some tough pitches and fouled off some tough pitches. If he got a pitch to hit, I was ...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

If we sit back and get in a slugfest with those guys, it is going to be very, very difficult for us....
MIKE SCIOSCIA

The two walks and the ball in center field that dropped obviously were bigger contributors in that i...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

No, I'm not in favor of replay at all.
MIKE SCIOSCIA

A big night for him. He deserved it. He played hard here. He flew under the radar, with A-Rod and Gr...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

This game, with its twists and turns, could have gone either way. This is the way the series is goin...
MIKE SCIOSCIA

That's the package these guys bring to the game,
MIKE SCIOSCIA

At the time that they were shown, the Brillo Boxes were underappreciated. It's only now, with th...
MIKE BIDLO

I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and t...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA

Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill.
MIKE PENCE

If you try to do your best there is no failure.
MIKE FARRELL

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.
MIKE WHITE

We are ramping up security in the United States but also looking at visa applicants, visa waiver app...
MIKE MCCAUL

For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.
MIKE D

Lofts are great. But with a home, there is a lot to be said for delineated space. To have the luxury...
MIKE D

We never set out to be superstars.
MIKE D

When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.
MIKE D

We're doing what we want to do, and that's why the kids respect us.
MIKE D

We are exercising our constitutional right to be fresh.
MIKE D

L.A. is a town built upon segregated, individual fantasies.
MIKE D

Each time you present a tour, you're faced with these questions of, 'How do you want to pres...
MIKE D

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint...
MIKE D

Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.
MIKE D

I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.
MIKE D

I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-found...
MIKE D

In the time we made 'To the 5 Boroughs,' there was a political seriousness because of what w...
MIKE D

That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen ...
MIKE D

We have rocked the ozone radically, man. They could probably fix the ozone if everybody stopped what...
MIKE D

I was showing up at the studio all the time with no bag, being like, 'I don't want to have a...
MIKE D

Having to wake up at seven and go take the subway every morning, having to get over there with all t...
MIKE D

I'm in need of a man apron. A very manly apron.
MIKE D

Thinking about the cold weather in England... Don't be afraid to rock the David Niven look.
MIKE D

Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen a...
MIKE D

Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subject...
MIKE D

I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. H...
MIKE D

I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.
MIKE D

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
MIKE D

Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.
MIKE BARNICLE

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationship...
MIKE MILLS

If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in providing counseling services and HIV testing, they ou...
MIKE PENCE

One day before I die, I will finally understand why liberals, especially Jewish liberals, fail to fu...
MIKE GALLAGHER

Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.
MIKE QUIGLEY

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
MIKE TYSON

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.
MIKE TYSON

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash...
MIKE TYSON

I think I'll take a bath in his blood.
MIKE TYSON

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.
MIKE TYSON

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.
MIKE TYSON

Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.
MIKE TYSON

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
MIKE TYSON

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.
MIKE TYSON

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing thi...
MIKE TYSON

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
MIKE TYSON

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hi...
MIKE TYSON

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.
MIKE TYSON

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
MIKE TYSON

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from on...
MIKE TYSON

Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.
MIKE TYSON

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
MIKE TYSON

My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
MIKE TYSON

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his he...
MIKE TYSON

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.
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As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write so...
MIKE STOLLER

I love Broadway shows.
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For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish ...
MIKE DAVIDSON

We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web brow...
MIKE DAVIDSON

I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we c...
MIKE ROGERS

I have a little pocket Bible that I have with me all the time in my briefcase, and so usually in the...
MIKE HUCKABEE

If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy,...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA

You can have the best technology, but you if have a corrupted, radicalized, bribed official that has...
MIKE MCCAUL

You can have the best technology, but if you have an inside job of a worker that has access to the p...
MIKE MCCAUL

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.
MIKE NORTON

The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing witho...
MIKE NORTON

By sabotaging logic, the common frame of reference, and the common language, we have removed a "safe...
MIKE KLEPPER

The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don...
MIKE NICHOLS

We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, ...
MIKE CURB

In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and...
MIKE WALLACE

In my home state of Indiana, we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced bud...
MIKE PENCE

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the maj...
MIKE PENCE

I'm still very bullish on emerging markets. There's an emerging middle class. They're a ...
MIKE DUKE

Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed.
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To the degree that we can demonstrate support for the Ukrainian government, we can change Putin'...
MIKE POMPEO

Honest to goodness, Brian Campbell, he was holding the Cup, and there was no one around for a minute...
MIKE QUIGLEY

Negative campaigning is wrong.
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I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turnin...
MIKE CURB

There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on milita...
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A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tol...
MIKE NICHOLS

Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and oran...
MIKE JUDGE

Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when...
MIKE PENCE

Remember, the Boston bombers were Chechen rebels.
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If a natural disaster like a flock of birds or a bolt of lightning causes a plane's engines to f...
MIKE GALLAGHER

Cardinal Raymond Burke is a 66-year-old guy who lives in Rome, dresses like Queen Elizabeth, and tal...
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Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sicke...
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Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness.
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I've loved traveling around the country and meeting people at book signings.
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MIKE MILLS

Boldness isn't something you're born with; you either choose it or you don't.
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I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me f...
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Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don't know why.
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The real acts of a real devil you know have been made acceptable by the fictitious actions of a none...
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Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be.

Lucif...
MIKE CAREY

This is out of the blue. Everything you could have messed up, we messed up out there. These guys have played terrific defense all year, so it's very uncharacteristic.

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This is out of the blue. Everything you could have messed up, we messed up out there. These guys have played terrific defense all year, so it's very uncharacteristic.

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