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John Gibbons

👤 Speaker
1025 total appearances

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Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

Next thing you know, you know, Batista comes through the – Oh, Batista with the – that was a bad flip, right?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

Yeah, that was a bad flip, and that even caught – remember, nobody could believe he was doing that, and then we had that big brawl the following year because of it.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

Yeah.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

Now it's like – now guys flip the bats when they're behind 10-0 in a regular season game.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

Yeah.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

It's got 10,000 people in the stands.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

It's like now everybody loves it.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

You know, remember the old, the commission came out and said, let the boys play.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

Okay.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

Well, this is what you get.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

I'll go back real quick.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

We dropped the first two at home, and we lost Brett Cecil, who arguably was the top reliever in the game at that time.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

He's top two or three.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

He blew his calf out covering first base.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

So we were kind of in a pinch.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

But anyway, we go down two games, nothing.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

So we're going down to Texas.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

And I can remember, you know, David Price came up to me and said, listen, when Cecil got hurt, he said, I can pitch you out of the bullpen for you.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

I said, and, you know, Price, I think he had 220 innings under his belt.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: What It's Like Being The Blue Jays Manager In The ALCS With John Gibbons

He's a free agent.