"I wasn't coming out unless my leg fell off. They were going to have to physically take me off the...

"I wasn't coming out unless my leg fell off. They were going to have to physically take me off the field."

-- Dontrelle Willis, on the possibility of being taken out of last night's game after hurting his knee

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Well...

then thank god he hit 100 pitches early.

by Tagne13 on Jun 10, 2009 4:59 PM EDT reply actions

+1

by David Tokarz on Jun 10, 2009 5:30 PM EDT up reply actions

What A Warrior....

….Did enough to keep his team in the game.

by BennieBladesFan on Jun 10, 2009 5:02 PM EDT reply actions

I must agree

as bad as he might have been last night, he did improve (not by leaps and bounds) by enough to keep us in the game. If his next start is even a bit better, we’ll know he still has some of it.

I have booked a ticket on the D-train, but my schedule looks pretty rough. We’ll have to see if I can make it.

by Kmann on Jun 10, 2009 6:10 PM EDT reply actions

Come the fall

Dontrelle will be more of a positive factor to this team than Armando.

by TMadison25 on Jun 10, 2009 6:40 PM EDT reply actions

Good ole Dontrelle

He may not be doing very well but he is going to give you everything he has when he is out there; hopefully he’ll at least be decent further along in the season.

by 13194013 on Jun 10, 2009 8:50 PM EDT reply actions

Leyland looked like he really wanted to yank him

But Dontrelle was not about to go quietly. It was quite obvious that he kept saying he was all right and Kevin Rand tried to talk him out of the game, but D wasn’t havin it. The fact that he talks to himself doesn’t bother me a bit and it is quite amusing and it’s fun to watch him. He still has the competitive fire in him and that’s a positive thing to have.

"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone". A. Bartlett Giamatti

by densogirl on Jun 11, 2009 12:21 AM EDT up reply actions