He has been the leader, and he has had the focus and everyone rowing the boat in the same direction. To change would be difficult, especially with two board members leaving and half the cabinet retiring.

I'm going into a whole new direction, which I've been wanting to do for so long. I want to be more true to my own voice now.

We feel strongly about this direction. This is a significant move in our focus on strengthening all aspects of our baseball operations. Josh has been associated with winning teams and successful general managers throughout his career that have helped shape his impressive vision.

We just have one basic focus. We're focused on going one direction, and that's forward.

Our thoughts create our reality -- where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

Clearly people feel less wealthy and people are going to focus on what happens to the direction of interest rates. Over the next couple of weeks, as the election subsides attention is going to shift to (Federal Reserve Chairman) Alan Greenspan.