Three Random Quotes: Josh Beckett
From Boston Herald:
“He’s a competitor with a capital ‘C.’ That’s what I love about Josh. He’ll get his butt handed to him, but four days later he’s back out there.”
– Brad Arnsberg, current Toronto pitching coach and former Marlins pitching coach
and:
“[Josh] was such a perfectionist and didn’t realize that sometimes you were going to have a bad day, because he came out of high school and had so much success in the minor leagues he didn’t know what failure was all about. He didn’t deal with it really well. He would show up umpires at the time, staring in. There were things he could control at the time that he wasn’t controlling. Now I watch him across the field and you see where he backs off a little bit. He’ll stick a pitch on the edge of the plate, not get the call, and it’s no big deal. He’s come a long way.”
– Brad Arnsberg
From Waltham Daily News Tribune:
“Josh Beckett sat alone on the clubhouse couch intently watching TV yesterday, two hours before punching in at work. His job was to handle the Toronto Blue Jays.
Beckett was watching “Field of Dreams.” Maybe he was looking for inspiration. Maybe he just liked the movie. But his eyes were riveted on the screen. Nobody said a word to him. And he had nothing to say.”
I love the image of Joshie sitting by himself in the clubhouse, cramming by studying up on Field of Dreams. It looks like it worked like a charm.
Do you think Greg Dobbs does this with “The Natural”?
So if Becketty-Boo watches Field of Dreams, Greg Dobbs watches The Natural – what does Cole Hamels watch? Steel Magnolias, so he can cry us a river?