MLB WORLD SERIES: YANKEES v BRAVES

October 27, 1999

Bobby Cox

BOBBY COX: Well, it's not very much fun losing four in a row, getting swept. I thought we played a little better than that. Could have had two of them tonight I thought Smoltzie matched Clemens pitch-for-pitch the whole ball game. He was on. The one inning, the two infield hits, Jeter broken bat, and, you know, we just didn't catch the ball good that inning. But he was really good tonight. Roger was great. We would have liked to have made it a better contest, that's for sure. You don't want to get into these things and get swept. You want to at least take it six or seven. You got to tip your hat to -- our hats, whatever, to the Yankees. Their pitching was excellent. We shook the hitting down a little bit, as best we could. I thought we did a good job for that except for the one ball game. They're strong. They got a great bench. It's a ballclub that deserves to be World Champions again. They're extremely good.

BOBBY COX: Well, there was two that inning, the ball in the hole. Walt got it in his glove, I don't know exactly what happened, then the one to first base. We walked a guy, set up a double play. We got the ground balls but we didn't get an out. That's the way it goes.

BOBBY COX: I don't know. I don't know if it was a bad hop or not. From our dugout, you really can't see the balls very well on the ground. So I really don't know what happened.

BOBBY COX: Well, I don't know. This was more emotional. I've never been emotional in any of these things. For some reason, it was after the game. You know. These, you know, we had a lot of different players this year, they really hung together. We could have easily folded our tents, the Mets were really a good club. And they could have caught us pretty easily but we wouldn't let them. And I really -- I admire a lot of the players on this team for really, really bearing down and, you know, we got this far. We would have all liked to have done a little better. But, you know, we just didn't play as well as we should have I guess.

BOBBY COX: Well, I haven't -- you know, we wanted to win it. I don't know how they're feeling. We've been there, we were talking to each other. You know, I think they think in their own minds they had a tremendous year for what the ballclub went through and everything else. We were ready to play and all that. Could have still been playing, a break here or there. They're disappointed, like I am. But we're proud of what we did to get here.

BOBBY COX: I would say that's pretty darn good because some of the other clubs through the years would win once, Baltimore and teams like, you know, were really great teams. I think they only won one time. I think some of the Oakland years when they were really a great club only won the one time. You know, to win three, you've got to go -- you have to tip your hats. It's hard. They could have been knocked out the first round like anybody else. It's so hard to go all the way every year. It's amazing to me. Even with the great ballclub, things can go wrong and breaks could go against you and things like that, you know. They just -- Texas just can't get by the Yankees, I guess. I think it ranks way up there, personally. That's hard to achieve.

BOBBY COX: Buck would be a good one to start with, I think, in our League. They're all good. Any of them could be manager of the year. They all try hard. We all do the same job. Some of us are a little luckier than the other ones.

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