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Oct. 12 Terry Collins pregame interview

THE MODERATOR: Terry, thanks for being here. First question.

Q. Terry, with the word "retaliate" being mentioned everywhere, what's your message to your ballclub tonight as we approach Game 3?

TERRY COLLINS: Play baseball. Play the game. This is too big a game. We need to not worry about retaliating. We need to worry about winning. The one thing you don't need to do is get yourself in a situation to put yourself on the bad side. I understand everything that happened. As frustrated as we are, as upset as we are, we feel so bad for Ruben, but you know, the one thing we can't do is cost ourselves a game, and this particular game, because we're angry.