#pennant

Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#going #keep #like #pennant #season

I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given. ↗

— Chuck Tanner

#gets #given #i #judged #manager

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one. ↗

— Chuck Tanner

#harder #lose #pennant #win

Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#nobody #pennant #shortstop #star #without

The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border. ↗

— Dave Winfield

#after #because #border #canada #city

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs. ↗

— Sammy Sosa

#go #home #home runs #middle #pennant

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll. ↗

— Dusty Baker

#budget #care #everyone #get #going

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant. ↗

— Pete Rose

#pennant #run #team #two-thirds #usually

She thought it funny how the poor environment had been raped just fine until there was a sufficient excess of the people who had effected the raping to produce sufficient numbers of themselves who were sufficiently idle that they might begin to protest the raping of the environment, which was irretrievably lost to the raping by that point. And this would be the great soothing cathedral music, the stopping of the chainsaws amid the patter of acid rain, that all good citizens would listen to for the quarter-century it took them all to wire up to cyberspace and forget about the lost hopeless run-over gang-ridden land, reproducing madly still all the while, inside their bunkers listening to NPR. ↗

— Padgett Powell

#political-causes #the-pennant-race #truth #men

And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time. ↗

— Carl Yastrzemski

#choice #crown #every #every time #i