No, we didn't get anything in writing. We all know about his past, but we're just concentrating on the future. We're just hoping it all works out for the best.

Rates are based on computer modeling that predicts future risk, not about recouping past losses.

Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in a different way, imagining the present in a different way, imagining the future in a different way.

He is a terrific athlete, we all know that. He's one of the top 15 or 20 players in the league, in our opinion anyway, and he brings it every night.

We didn't know whether or not he wanted to come. We want somebody that wants to come to your organization, and that was our big question. That's why we wanted to talk to him for ourselves today. He said he wants to play and he wants to be in Sacramento. That's good enough for us.

We just talked to him on the phone. He told us he's excited to come to Sacramento, and just hearing him say that, we were convinced he was sincere.