Everyone came in starting to think about the market going up for the rest of the year and they came in buying the market. Obviously, it was a little ahead of itself.

It's the first time we've had some solid news back to back on trade in a long time.

When you are a fund manager and you continue to get money, the easiest way to do it is just to buy futures and then flip it for stock. And that's exactly what we're seeing happening right now.

They did a good job, both Pierre and Conine, of getting on base and setting things up for the rest of the guys. Pierre's a big factor is helping us score. [Conine] is a good RBI guy, he showed that today.

We know we can't let teams hang around. Getting on them early can set a tone for the rest of the game, which happened [Friday]. We only won by [13] points, but it didn't seem like that because we established the tone early with our defense.

Alex hit that first shot and fueled us the rest of the game. It was a huge win. If we lost, our title hopes would have been shot.