I'm not going to jump on the wagon now and say, yes indeed, here we are. Certainly, it has been a nice mixture of good pitching and the offense has come to life.

I'd certainly prefer to finish fourth than finish fifth. There's a stigma to that: last. 'You finished last, last year.' And after the start we had, ... that just kind of throws cold water completely on the whole season right there.

This thing is not going to drag on, let me just put it that way.

He is a warrior, and I am not going to take him out there and interrupt things out there on that field.

Not really. It wasn't that easy. I went about 0-for-23 sometime after that.

A diary means yes indeed