I always want to do well, ... I don't have any animosity toward the Diamondbacks. They were always a class organization. They let me finish school before I started pitching. They gave me every opportunity to succeed.

There was no animosity in the breakup of Soundgarden.

Every day I try to ask him a new phrase in Japanese. Like, 'What are you doing tomorrow?' or, 'How are you?' I'm not even close to ever speaking it or reading it fluently. But I know some basic phrases.

That was a sloppy inning. Take it away, and maybe we win.

I felt physically OK, ... I fell behind some hitters, and that usually is a recipe for giving up some runs.

Early in the year we lost Ben for a while (to an inner-ear ailment) and as a pitching staff we picked up the slack pretty well, ... So this time we just got together and said, 'Hey, we've got to do the same thing here.'