I know we have not been able to dramatically improve the team because we don't have an owner. Bud Selig ought to be ashamed of himself for the way he has conducted this process.

The owner is not going to be able to sit there and manipulate a container containing a bomb through a port. To do that, it would take a conspiracy involving quite a number of people, including people on the ground, who are going to be (International Longshoreman's Association) members.

We look at all avenues to improve our team,

Their goalie was tremendous and we weren't able to capitalize. And obviously, that's not the start we wanted.

I think Whirlpool has the synergies to be able to pull this off. Maytag is not going to make it by themselves, and nobody does the laundry business better than Whirlpool.

I think Whirlpool has the synergies to be able to pull this off, ... Maytag is not going to make it by themselves, and nobody does the laundry business better than Whirlpool.