If we had a press credential, we could create a game report that would blow away anything a newspaper could offer because we're not limited to 800 words or whatever a sports reporter is limited to as far as space. We can go on for 5,000 words and describe every detail.

If you're a public relations person, any press is good press. It certainly brings more to the story than just skating laps and who's winning a gold medal.

What you saw tonight was the results of trying to press for three straight days. Our shooting was terrible and we couldn't buy a bucket. That's one of the disadvantages of playing back-to-back-to-back. We got a little tired and we lost our legs.

[Sam grew from there and has morphed into something as prodigious as Mo Vaughn 's gut in his Met years: It has 150,000 visitors each day, according to Christensen, and there are more than 10,000 people on the SOSH waiting list for membership. Uh, waiting list?] In order to maintain the quality standards, we've had to close membership, ... I don't want people to think we are kicking them to the curb because we think we are better than they are. That's definitely not the case. But I think it [the small group of members] could be part of the draw of the site. It's the only way I know of maintaining a quality signal to noise ratio.

We happen to live in a catcher's mitt for hurricanes. I would still make all the preparations for a busy hurricane season.

We've gotten some money from other settlements [between companies working with Enron]. But the Enron settlements look like pennies on the dollar due to bankruptcy.