Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 10, 2007
Rollins Confident

Jimmy Rollins stands firm in his belief that the Phillies are the team to beat:

Rollins stood in the middle of the small visitors' clubhouse, making himself easily available to anyone who wanted to ask him a question. He wasn't surly, or even defiant. He even had a sense of humor about the way the crowd had given him the New York treatment, waving to them as he came off the field in the eighth inning, as the "Jim-my Roll-ins, Jim-my Roll-ins," chant echoed throughout Shea.

"The crowd was great," he said with a laugh. "They are fans, they're supposed to get on the other players, and try to get under your skin. I like that, I really do."

Above all, Rollins was firm in his position that he'd said what he'd said for a reason, and he had no regrets.

"I don't have to defend it," he said. "If I didn't feel it, I wouldn't have said it. I try to tell it the way it is. Sometimes it needs to be said.

"It's like with your wife. If you don't tell her you love her, even though she knows it, (she) still wants to hear it. With us, the feeling is there, that, 'Hey, we are good,' but sometimes you need to hear it to really believe it."

Good for him. Now he and the Phillies just need to prove it.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:18 AM | Predictions | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Knocking in a few more of those runners would be good. 135 LOB through 7 games is not a good stat.

Posted by: robustyoungsoul at April 10, 2007 11:42 AM

Still think I was pessimistic David?

Posted by: Tom G at April 10, 2007 04:08 PM
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