I wish I could bear-hug him and twist his arm but he's a pretty big guy. We definitely want him. Hopefully when he makes his decision, the Yankees will come up first.
There's not many teams who fail to pursue their most popular player or one of their better players. I know the Yankees would never be like that.
I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life.
We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.
There's no way I can go play for the Yankees.
There's no way I can play for the Yankees, but I know they're going to come after me hard. It's definitely not the most important thing to go out there for the top dollar, which the Yankees are going to offer me. It's not what I need.
Going into Yankee Stadium, we expect to win. We know what the job ahead of us is. We need to win as many games as possible.
We're three games up. We know this isn't going to be over any time soon. All we can do is go out and play to win, and hopefully the Yankees lose some games before they come see us.
There was a mystery team that was offering more years and more guaranteed money, but they could not guarantee winning like the New York Yankees can. That's the biggest reason why I'm here because we will win.
Hopefully, they cheer. If not, I understand because I'm wearing the Yankees uniform.
It sure feels good. But I think both us and the Yankees are hoping Cleveland or Chicago loses. We know those teams deserve to be in it. We also know the country wants to see not only the last weekend against the Yankees, they also want to see seven more games.
It was awesome. We saw what the Yankees did and we knew we had to win.
We understand the sign, but we also understand that the U.S. is counting on us to win this tournament. Yankee fans do expect to see Jeter, A-Rod, myself and Bernie Williams there, but with the Classic going on they had to lose some players for some time.
I hope the fans understand what went wrong in terms of signing with the Red Sox. Nothing will take away from my memories and the love affair I had with the city. But I really don't care, I just want to help the Yankees win.
I'm excited about playing in front of the fans who, over the years, have come to know me as a player on another team. Now they get to see me for 81 days at Yankee Stadium, they get to see how I approach the game, my love for the game and the way I'm going to help this team win.
I know how it works. They hate seeing a Yankee uniform.
It was just one of those bad days at the ballpark. With the Yankees losing, we can somewhat go out there and forget about this but we need to go down to Tampa and play well.
It all feels tough still. It's not just the Yankees chasing us, it's all the wild-card teams, too. It's been an incredible race.
Yankees fans do expect to see Jeter, A-Rod, myself and Bernie Williams. But with this Classic going on, we had to lose some players for some time. I understand the sign, but hopefully we'll put on a showing for the U.S. team.
We're fortunate that the Yankees lost. Everyone is scoreboard watching, the players and the fans.