The first time I made it to the NFR and didn't win, I was sure I'd have other chances. I was just excited to be there. But later on, I started to wonder if it would ever happen.

I was on a roll before that. But that set me back. It was probably the low point of my career.

Every professional athlete has certain places where they know it's going to be tougher for them. It's a mindset more than anything else. But I guess for me, it's a little more than that.

We had a couple of volunteer stations we had to go back to a second time.

time is not the stable moving-staircase that prosemen have for centuries pretended it to be, but an unaccountable wibble-wobble

We'll probably only have four days from the time they get back until we play a game. They are going to be taking plenty of swings to get their timing down at the plate.