Ron Gardenhire Time Quotations

It's nice to see that number out there in center field. And we've got that (No. 34) patch on our uniforms, and every time I look at it I think of him.

Most of the time you send Rad back out there. But this isn't most of the time any more.

Most of the time you send Brad back out there, but this isn't most of the time. We're going to try to do whatever we have to do to win games.

It's very tough. They didn't put a timetable on it, so that tells me it's going to be a while.

I think the second time around we'll see where we're at here.

We actually scored six runs out there today, and most of the time when we score six that's good enough for our pitching to stop them. It just didn't work today. They were swinging, and we didn't make enough good pitches.

It's not going to be easy decisions when it comes time to who's going to play and who's not going to play. All are getting after it pretty good.

That's your shining light right now. Maybe this is a cure all. Maybe we'll come home and play better baseball. Sometime we are going to have to figure out a way to play better on the road, too, but first come home and play good baseball and then go from there.

The ball was up and out and over the plate. He can't seem to locate, but that was his first time out there and the big thing with him is feeling healthy. Maybe location will come.

We're struggling a bit right now, trying to find our way and trying to get healthy at the same time early in the year. We've got a lot of baseball left, so hopefully we'll right the ship in the next few series and play a little better baseball, pitching and defense.

Every time you start trying to figure something out, somebody gets whacked. So we're just going to let it go down to the end.

All you can see is how he does. I don't want to punish a kid for something like that. It's quite an honor. He might be pitching great for the world games, but I might have a guy here that's blowing people away every time he gets the ball. What are you going to do? That makes it tough on all parties.

Any time you get a chance to win a series, that's what it's all about. We had a chance to sweep them here but they played well, they came back and jumped on us early and got some runs off Lohse in the first four innings and then held a lead.

I'm not going to expect too much of him. We want to take it nice and slow and not put too much pressure on him. I do believe he's going to help our team sometime this year, even if he starts the season in the minors.

We're starting to get concerned. It's mid-March, and he hasn't been out there yet. We have time, but the time is getting to where he needs to get out there and see some hitters.

I took it personal, and it wasn't really personal. So I learned from it. And I think Kyle did, too. I always have liked Kyle. ... Anytime you get guys with a fire inside of them, that want to win, that want to be out there on the mound, people are going to butt heads.

We will run every ball out, and we will give you a show every time we come out. Because that's what Kirby would have wanted us to do.

We've probably had too many at the same time this year who've struggled.

Whatever you can do to motivate yourself, do it at this time of year.

Well, he got himself into it, so I can't exactly give him points for getting out. I think the last inning, he finally got some pitches down, but a lot were up. That's something we've been working on and really trying to get him to keep the ball down better in the zone and keep his angle. He had a hard time today. But he got through it and didn't implode.

They said he shortened everything up, which is what we were looking for. Now you just bide your time here and see where we're at as we go along.

He's having a little bit of a rough time swinging right now, and we'll see if he can put some good swings on the ball tomorrow and go from there.

He's hasn't told me he needs to be shut down yet. We're playing him. As long as you can play. Everybody has issues this time of year -- believe me. Everybody is hurt. Everybody is playing hurt. If you're not, you probably didn't play very hard.

It's a tough time for everyone. I'm sure Minnesota Twins fans are hurting. It's very painful right now. But the good thing is that we all know where Puck is going to be -- he's going to be up in heaven whacking the ball around.