Brad Radke Quotations

When you turn 90, you've done something right. Hopefully I can even come close to that.

Shoot, haven't seen anything like that in a while. It's good to see. Hopefully, we'll do that in April, May, June, July, August, September and October. If we do that, we'll be all right.

I feel pretty good. By the time April rolls around I should be ready to go.

Hopefully this will kind of get us going a little bit.

Keep guys off the bases by limiting walks and you really give yourself a chance. Guys are going to get hits. But if you limit those free passes, they have to work a lot harder to put up runs.

I think these two teams have a lot in common. We can look out and say, 'Look what the A's can do with a small payroll' and we're in the same boat.

Our offense is much improved. We had a few guys who had down years last year. They'll help out more.

I still haven't decided. I'll let you know down the road.

I thought I threw a good pitch, and he hit it hard.

That's two in a row. Hopefully we can spread 'em out and get the bats going at home.

You just don't want to get too far behind in the standings in April and May. They've had a pretty good start. They've been playing some pretty good baseball.

We have a guy who can hit 30 home runs -- Justin. He should do it real easy.

We need to win a lot of games. It's good to win, especially in extra innings with this heat.

We are going into the off-day definitely on a positive note. Now, we just need to stay on top of things and keep playing hard.

This one was pretty rough. I think it's probably the roughest one I've had. I just have to keep battling away and hopefully find that rhythm that I'm looking for.

Because I'm getting old. I can't go out there with the same slop every five days.

As the season progressed, it was like, 'Holy cow.' Carlos has such a nasty sinker and throws so many ground balls that he can be really confident about making the hitters put the ball in play.

It was almost a repeat of the first two starts, except for a couple of runs late. I just need to bear down and do a better job next time.

The start that I have had has been very frustrating for me. I want to do my best and get the team going.

Puck would've wanted us to go out and play.

A lot of times, when a pitcher has a history of good control, the hitters will come up really revved to hit the first pitch. Sometimes that works out for them and sometimes it doesn't. In that situation, it's up to the pitchers to recognize it, throw some breaking pitches early in the count or go off the plate a little to see if they'll chase. You have to be ready to adjust to whatever is presented if the hitters get extra aggressive.

This organization really stresses not walking guys. I think that as a staff, we've sort of been able to feed off each other in that regard. You learn. I know that when I walk guys, most of the time they are going to score.

It's not happening, it's just not happening. It seems like every time I make a mistake over the plate, it gets hit pretty hard. I just need to do a little better job of locating the ball. That's all.

It's obviously very hard for a lot of people right now. It's been a tough last couple of days. He's with good hands right now, you know, but he's going to be very missed.

It's going to get pretty loud in there now.

It's frustrating for me, and it's also frustrating for the guys, too. I want to go out and do my best and get this team on the right track. Just glad it's the end of April, maybe I can turn over a new leaf here in May.

Everybody was quiet, pretty much kept to themselves.

It seemed like he really wanted to learn and he learned fast. I don't know what Andy was telling him, but whatever it was it sunk in real fast.

Not calling it anything yet. I've got to make sure it works first.

It's working better, as I had a strikeout on it today and a couple of other strikes. The secret weapon is coming.

It's to the point where ... it just drives you crazy,

They keep everyone loose. That was something I thought about when I signed back here.

It's nice to see where you came up from. You kind of lose track of those guys when you're up here. It's a little bit of an eye opener to go back.

I'm ready to go. My slider is working pretty well, and that's my fourth-best pitch. It's working better for me this year.

I made a couple mistakes and they beat me today. I felt pretty good out there. I just made a couple mistakes.

I made some good pitches there, and our bats did the rest,

I haven't seen us hit like that in a while. If we can do that in September and October, we'll be all right.

Hopefully, I can help get things rolling and start us off on the right foot here (tonight). We tend to play well at home, so hopefully that will happen.

He's amazing because he overpowers guys and still has finesse, too.

I don't think the season really begins for about two weeks. We were just getting in off the road, and that's hard enough. It takes time to get settled in at home and get comfortable.

The first inning was pretty important. Maybe that got us going a bit. It was nice to see the guys put up some crooked numbers.