Steve Phillips
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I played a lot of football and was going to go to college to play football.
That's a sport where you grit your teeth and you hit somebody harder.
You try harder.
You run faster.
You hit somebody harder.
You can't do that in baseball.
You've got to relax more.
You've got to make it mostly...
blowing smoke and putting a guy up, you can't really jump him.
But I think that more than anything, you kind of ask, what do you need from us?
What can we do for you?
What can we do to get you going and that we believe in you?
Because that's really what the players need to hear.
They need sugar, not venom and vinegar when you're talking to them.
Yeah, I will tell you that whether they fought it when they made the trade, I think once they got him in-house, they had to believe it.
I mean, he is a bulldog.
I mean, I think he pits in every playoff game last year, just about.
And he's got a belly full of guts.
And he is really, you know, he doesn't back down.
He attacks.