I've never seen anything like that before. Usually when home teams break up no-hit bids, the crowd cheers the hit and cheers the pitcher. I've never seen them boo before.

If there's some stupid guy in the crowd, like there usually is, I'll just break the ice by kicking him ... That usually gets everyone really happy because chances are he's been annoying everyone the whole day.

They can't say now, with two teams in the Sweet 16, that we're overrated with too many (four) bids. We proved by our teams that we're successful.

Casey Blake (a former Minnesota Twin, now with the Indians) is a good friend of mine, I'd like to see the Indians win.

Even when I was a free agent last year, my agent approached Milwaukee. Milwaukee was one of the first places on my list.

This is a good group of young guys that's eager to play. When I was coming up with the (Minnesota) Twins, they called us a Triple-A team. But then we made the playoffs. That's the direction we're headed.