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You pitch good, and you pitch bad -- but that's just performance stuff," Lidge said. "That's not hard to deal with mentally. Not for me. If you pitch bad, you say, 'I'll just practice something else, or I'll get better doing something.' But at least you're pitching.

"What's hard mentally is dealing with injuries, because that you don't have control over. When you've got control over stuff, like how you pitch, it's just not hard. What's a strain mentally is when you don't have control over the situation. I had four surgeries in 3½ years. And that is mentally tough, because then you've got to convince yourself that it's just a phase you're going through and you're going to be healthy someday."

Oh, Lidgey. I'm sorry I yelled at you in my brain during the offseason. I didn't mean it. I love you.

Now, you watch your ass in the WBC, you hear?

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Quote courtesy of Sam:

"When we're playing golf, [Kenny Rogers is] a fun guy to be around," Bonderman said. "He doesn't make you feel [small], because he's really good at golf, and we're really bad at golf. We're totally different on the golf course."

Quote courtesy of Danny Knobler, found via the Detroit Tigers Forum:

Today, Rogers said of Bonderman: "He's probably the best [golfer] on the club."

JERKS stop trying to make me ship you! I still haven't warmed up to Rogers (though I really do like the stuff going around, which you can find in the above Sam link, about Rogers providing a solid veteran presence for Bonderman and the other young pitchers), so cut it out.

OMGtheirloveissogolftastic.

*cries*