Milwaukee Brewers Quotations

In my mind, he's an absolute lock, ... I don't even need to see any numbers. He's in today. He's in yesterday. He's in three months ago. If you had asked me five years ago, I'd have told you he was in.

I don't think we're seeing the real Rickie right now, ... There are some things that we haven't been able to work on a lot because his thumb has been bothering him a bit, but you can see that he is going to be a special player.

I'm suffering now so I won't have to suffer later,

It was a big game to come back and win, ... We would have been pretty down if we lose that game and maybe that carries over into the next series.

He never got settled in. He couldn't find a groove. He never got going,

much more well-rounded as a result of the trade.

This is our little five-game World Series right now. We're right there; we've definitely got something to shoot for.

Harry's 17 years with the organization were marked by outstanding team achievements, including the team's first-ever pennant and World Series appearance, and he will be remembered as one of the organization's legends, ... He was also one of the community's greatest supporters and he did much to make the city of Milwaukee a better place for all of us to call home.

We did have champagne in Pittsburgh that we were going to break open, not for a champagne party but for a toast, ... We were going to have a champagne toast to put losing seasons behind us and look at the winning seasons ahead of us. We didn't pop it open because we didn't win another game.

Since Rickie is on the 40-man roster and possibly may play in the Arizona Fall League, we wanted to get him to stay in baseball shape with the big club and receive the instruction and experience at this level, ... He has a very bright future and we believe that this opportunity will be invaluable for him in his development as a player.