One reason I wanted Osgood is that he understands the expectations of playing here. Some people have struggled with those expectations and that pressure. Osgood understand that pressure and still wanted to be here.

So the pressure is on Kerry to meet expectations. And let's not forget the good news for the White House in this poll: Bush is still seen as a stronger leader who would better deal with Iraq and terrorism,

The reason they weren't all that happy is because their expectations were all that much better. That, to me, makes me feel good as a coach, that the expectations in our program were that high.

The bottom line for us is we are experiencing excellent revenue growth..., ... We have good expectations for the fourth quarter and all of 2006.

We like our nucleus, the core of young players we have. We'd like to build something here. We want to be in position to add in the future, when the ages of unrestricted free agency goes down.

I negotiated from May 2004 to early September 2004 with them and we were so far apart at that point in time that I guess I was figuring if we picked up where we left off we were a long ways apart, ... We'll see what happens.