Madi’s Reviews > Gibby: Tales of a Baseball Lifer > Status Update

The thing about baseball is there’s nothing to complain about or fret over, and remember, there’s no crying in baseball.

Never overvalue yourself — that’s in baseball and in life.

If I’d done my schooling like my dad had wanted, I could probably pull out some deep quote from my memory about paths not taken, walking in the woods or other nonsense.
The only paths I ever saw were basepaths. I’m a baseball lifer. I love the game, and I want to be a part of it.

(Gibby on a threat of being fired after buying his young son Kyle a Derek Jeter jersey)

Nothing ever came of it, but it just shows you that if they want your head bad enough, some people will try anything. Just go ahead and do it. I guess I could understand if it had been me wearing it — I loved Jeter too.

Crazy things happen. You think you’ve got it right there and all of a sudden it evaporates. That’s the beauty of baseball: you never know.

[...] I explained to the media my side of having to get up close to him, but Josh delivered a beauty: “I was just coming back to the dugout and hit my bat against the [wall], and Gibby asked me what kind of cologne I was wearing,” Donaldson told reporters. “I said, ‘It’s this new cologne called Tom Ford, I just got it.’”
We moved on [...]. I love the kid to death, one of my all-time favorites, but he was a handful.

While the ’16 Jays weren’t the ’86 Mets, we were disliked. We had some guys that were cocky, who wore their emotions on their sleeve, who weren’t afraid to complain and bitch at umpires or to fight. As a team, we weren’t afraid to stick our chest out, because we were coming off a good year and we were good.

But in the end, it’s good old-fashioned fundamental baseball that still wins. Game 6 is a perfect example. You strike out, you’ve got no shot at scoring. We had two of the best opportunities to take our shot, but it didn’t happen. I would bet on my guys in that spot every time.

2/2

It usually comes down to pitching, and they out-pitched us. Baseball has changed quite a bit since then, and 2015’s not that long ago. In today’s game, everyone strikes out or hits a home run.

(1/2)

I’m currently sitting at 53 lifetime ejections. That’s not bad, but a long way from the top: Bobby Cox is at 161, but percentage-wise for number of games managed, it’s close.