Almost any decision that I ended up making in the baseball part of our operation Wayne was involved in at some point.

I don't know about unique; I think he's good. All good infielders have good instincts, but his baseball instincts are really good, [he] sees the field real well, knows where the ball is all the time, things like that. Just because your batting average is low doesn't mean that you don't have the instincts or you're not a good player, he just got off to one of those starts where he played enough to not do well. We've all been through it. For whatever reason, he just had a tough time getting untracked.

She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision.

Our twin priorities are reconstituting the baseball department and getting new decision makers in there. Coming up with our own philosophy, which is going to be a blend of a lot of different philosophies on building a winning team, one that's going to be successful [not just] next year, but for years and years to come. And how we deploy our assets to make sure that happens.

I used to play baseball, so when Bruce cut baseball, my initial reaction was not to like the decision,

We're kind of optimistic actually. It's been a good year. This looks a little more positive than we might have thought it would two or three years ago.