When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.
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We use the people who are in the bullpen producing.
I felt good in the bullpen and even when we came out in the first inning I felt fairly good.
I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
For me, the game starts with starting pitching.
Every time I pull somebody out of the bullpen, I believe he can do the job. I have to believe it. If he doesn't, hopefully he will do it the next time.
I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.
Usually during the regular season, if you're starting pitcher, you're kind of walking back and forth from the clubhouse to the dugout and not really paying attention to what's going on.
There's been times where I've come out of the bullpen thinking I was going to throw a no hitter, and I've lasted two or three innings. So I try not to use my pre-game warm ups as a barometer of how I'm going to pitch.
In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
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