When you're going to face the Cleveland Indians, you've got to bring your ace game. Freddy was not on. You face that type of lineup, you get behind, you will get hit.

When you face the Cleveland Indians, you got to bring your 'A' game. You face that kind of a lineup and you get behind (in the count), you will get hit.

When you face the Cleveland Indians, you'd better bring your best game. When you face that kind of lineup, you will be hit.

[You are a White Sox fan. You are rooting for Kansas City to slow down the Indians, though your own manager didn't sound very comforting when he mentioned how hard it is for the hopelessly downtrodden to keep focus.] You take the Kansas City Royals, ... I guarantee you, they don't want to come to the ballpark.

We have to stick together for when the tough times come.

The sooner you get to the post-season, every game you win you get tougher and tougher and tougher,