Posts tagged Roy Halladay.

The first two months have been tough for all of us. You do everything you can to fix it, and that’s it. I think it gets back to going out and trying to play a little bit more loose and focus on your job. I think we’ve got, including myself, a lot of guys that are going out and trying to carry the weight of the team, and you can’t play that way, and I think we’ve seen that. I think everybody is trying to pick up slack for what we may not be doing or guys we may be missing and all that, and that only seems to compound the problem. You put it behind you, but I think a lot of us just need to go out and play the game and have fun playing the game. You start pressing and you start trying to do things that you don’t need to do and it makes things worse. Charlie says it all the time. You do it because you want to, not because you have to. I think it’s hard when things aren’t going the way you want them to go, but that’s how you play the game, and ultimately it is a game, and I think that’s important to remember. It’s tough to do in places like this, where fans expect a lot, media expect a lot, players expect a lot, but I think it’s important to try and find a way to keep that in mind and try to go out and play that way regardless of your own expectations and everyone elses. You’ve got to get to just playing the game and enjoying playing the game.