It's a momentum shift. I'm not saying I did anything great - I mean, it's just what we do - but it changed things. I think it maybe got some guys fired up.

It's a relief. It takes the weight off the defense and lets us go out and relax. For a lot of us, this is our first postseason appearance, as far as a championship series goes, and you tend to tense up.

It's just like what I told Raff when I went out to talk to him in the ninth. The pressure was on them. We were up three runs - the pressure wasn't on us.

There has been an incredible increase in the number of retailers who are throwing up their hands and saying, 'That's it, we are going to require prepay until we can figure out another way,'

Everybody was saying they're gonna go with what they have. That was the word we were getting. But I wasn't worried about it. If it's my time to go, it's my time to go. I have my kids and would love to see them play.

We feel like we've earned our way into a summer date. We've been saying to the Tour since we got the tournament in the first place we wanted to move it to the summer. We took a tournament that was nomadic and close to nonexistence and turned it into a quality, first-class event.