They said it: Quotes from around baseball
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“You need haters in your life. If you don’t have haters in your life, you’re not doing anything.”
— Cincinnati Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips, in a discussion of the perils of Twitter.
“I’ll calm down sometime next week.”
— Texas Rangers closer Joe Nathan, entrusted not to ruin the Yankees’ Mariano Rivera’s All-Star finale by blowing the save for the American League. Nathan converted the save.
“We always joke about it: ‘You hit two, you better be hydrated tomorrow.’”
— Baltimore Orioles first baseman and major league home run leader Chris Davis, on the perception that MLB’s random drug tests might somehow target sluggers.
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