Al Leiter

Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong. ↗

— Al Leiter

#broadcast #enough #get #goes #guys

But I'm still not 100% convinced that Roger Clemens took steroids. I'm not. ↗

— Al Leiter

#i #roger #steroids #still #took

For seven years, I was in this fishbowl with this intensity, with all the stuff that went on with the Mets. ↗

— Al Leiter

#intensity #mets #seven #stuff #went

I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York. ↗

— Al Leiter

#i #leave #mets #new #new york

I like starting. It's pretty cool. ↗

— Al Leiter

#i #like #pretty #starting

I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness. ↗

— Al Leiter

#elevates #event #every #feels #game

I love the game very much, but when you were a certain type of player for a few years, being a front-end starter, that's the way I still think I can pitch. But the body tells you no. ↗

— Al Leiter

#body #certain #few #game #i

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later. ↗

— Al Leiter

#chess #chess game #differently #early #game

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it. ↗

— Al Leiter

#chess #pitcher #play #setting #up

You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them. ↗

— Al Leiter

#because #deadlines #feel #how #people