I get to see its everyday life, and I'm excited about that.

I've been closing my whole life, and I love closing. Last year, I got a chance to start and I loved that. I like the strategy that comes with starting.

I'm glad the guys decided to score when they did. I was the benefactor tonight.

It was a bad pitch. I left a cutter up. It was a mistake and he just put it over the right-field fence. It was just that one pitch and the guy killed it. I felt I left the team down. I know how much we needed that one. We've got to come to the park tomorrow expecting to win.

I don't really hear anybody talking about that. We just want to go out and play good ballgames.

I felt like I performed pretty well, and I thought I was going to be a piece of the pie for them down the road. Looking from the outside in on what direction the Royals wanted to go, it didn't seem like I was going to be in the situation I wanted to be in. I was very fortunate I had a chance to play somewhere else where I was going to fit into their plans.