I thought it was really interesting. They put a lot into it.

I was surprised, ... I thought there would be more boos.

It's what we thought we would always do, so it's a wonderful thing.

Toward the middle of the season when I started to get my scores up, I thought I might have a chance of beating him. But when you score 300 twice in a year, that's a great feat; he's just an amazing diver.

Jo-Jo did a great job of working out of some jams. And I thought Jesse Jordan came in and gave us some good innings.

I grew up in Worcester, and we never thought twice about the Blackstone. It was something south of the city -- and in the '50s and '60s, when I was growing up, it was pretty dirty -- so no one thought about it much.