It hasn't quite really sunk in. But right now it feels good, and I'm trying to relax and catch my breath and take it in. We still have a lot of work to do, but getting the first definitely is awesome.

Not physically, just mentally and all the pressure and all the questions coming in and the thoughts, trying to get all the stuff out of my head. It was tough. The first game's out of the way.

Just not relax and say we beat Dayton and Amity last year, we made it to the playoffs so we'll make it again this year because we have all but four guys back. We still have a lot to prove. We can't just relax.

Coming off the day I had, I was just trying to relax and not do too much. With guys like (Josh) Rodriguez and (Joe) Savery hitting behind me, it's really hard to pitch around me.

We just thought it would be important to have a presence right here ... a place to relax a little bit, warm up and find out what's going on around town.

We're not trying to a make a statement on sexual politics. It would be easy to do that in this play, but it's not what we're going for. Every character in this play is pretty much a caricature.