We took our eye off the ball as a company.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess.
After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.
We had an awfully good ball club that was capable of beating anybody. They were that good.
And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'
The most important thing to me is how hard we go after the ball and take care of it.
In 1986, we gave it our best shot but we didn't get the run of the ball.
Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.
We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.
We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.
Keep your eye on the ball.