If Wally gets excited and gives him an inch, ... it's going to be two or three inches.

Every once in a while he tweaks it and then he gets some relief, ... It hasn't been unrelenting. He'll make a move and all of a sudden jolt it.

He's really got a short fuse. And when he doesn't do well, he gets [angry]. It's something he'll learn, I think, to be a little bit better about.

That was vintage Carpenter. He had first and second, the middle of the lineup, and he gets out of it. That's what he does.

I can remember once when they were going through the top three or four closers, a couple months ago when he was second in the league [in saves], and he was never mentioned,

To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.