It was a very touchy time at that point, being a very good friend of his. This kid's a healthy guy, a runner, stays in shape, eats right, doesn't go tanning or anything like that, and he gets cancer. So it was a big eye-opener for us, that anything can happen at any time.

His skin was pale white, he lost his hair, could barely talk, was coughing, and always had to go in for treatments. His assistants were basically running the team, but he would come to the games. He get upset at an umpire, and he'd try to get up and yell and he'd fall out of his chair.

I bought a topography program which allows us to map the roads and see the changes in elevation and distances, just so we could plan out how tough the days were really going to be.

We won't have this come up for some time.

He's going to be around a long time.

at the right time.