22 Quotes by Dan Callahan

Scott challenged us all day long and they outplayed us.

Shafer was pretty darn good today. I've never seen more balls hit off the handle in all of my life. If we were using wooden bats, they'd be shattered all over the field.

Obviously, with the success of basketball and football, his imprint is apparent. But he's also done a lot with the non-revenue sports and has helped bring the budget under control. Finding the right leader is imperative right now.

I'd like to see us become more consistent on defense, but there were some good plays that kept us in the game. We struggled some offensively, but had some clutch hits, and pitched well enough to win a close game.

I thought he did a very good job of competing. He was basically getting by with two pitches.... As much as anything, he just had a good fastball.

It is something we have to address. We aren't going to win many close games by making those types of plays. Those were routine plays and there are no excuses for the way we're kicking the ball around right now.

I thought Shane Garner did an excellent job today, not only doing just what you're supposed to do, to go in, throw strikes and compete, but just slowing it down, creating some semblance of order. It didn't seem like we had that with Matt Brewer in the game. Things were just crazy and some of that was not his fault, but some of it was.

Our starting pitching was, to put it bluntly, lousy this weekend. We know we're having some defensive problems, but we can't expect to be a contending team in the Valley with starting pitching like that.

Our starting pitching has been consistent and our bullpen seems to be stabilized. We are playing pretty good baseball right now.