That's an additional six months of rehab and healing. To us, it's a no-brainer.

If we're making progress, there's no reason to have a hard deadline. If we're not, Melvin feels very strongly that he doesn't want this to linger past Opening Day.

That'll be a good meet for us. We'll go down there and find out just who we are.

The Internet is bringing a whole new kind of customer to bear. It would seem to us that many of those customers don't differentiate between daytime and nighttime.

I think (the layoff) hurt us. Having that layoff is good to nurse injuries, but it also kind of takes away from being tuned up and (it takes away) from the intensity.

Obviously we want people to come and root us on, but it's kind of sad for an institution like the Legion to just go away.