I don't think there's any feeling it's unfair. I think the umpires are always challenged to call the game. The game is not an easy game to call to begin with, and I don't think you can allow outside influences to influence how you work a game. I mean, they're professional umpires. I think they do their best to get everything right.

I have a better feeling now than when I walked into the ballpark tonight. Now we have to take care of business against South Africa.

Roberts and Hudson are close. Orlando is one of the premier second baseman in the game. Garth Iorg did a great job with him in the minors. Orlando reminds me of Frank White the way he plays the game.

We don't want to even think about that. We haven't even got into that far yet.

I just think it's unfair what they are doing given the big, huge raises they got.

I think the thing that strikes me is that were there perilous situations for all of [the favorites]. Panama was close to knocking off Cuba. Venezuela had a couple of close games. Nobody has been routed. That's what's interesting is that none of the big powerhouses have really broken out yet, except for the first Venezuela-Dominican game.