The Maine Legislature created this problem in the first place by allowing the practice of forcing workers to pay dues to an unwanted union or be fired from their jobs.

The thing I like the best about Josh is he's one of our hardest workers in practice. I've always felt it was real important that your best players be your best practice players, too. We're lucky in that with Josh and Cory.

Those two guys (Lee and Tewksbury) as well as Andrew (Lewis) are really hard workers at practice and its nice to see them able to move on. Also those other guys that got down here but didn't move on, got some valuable experience for next year. Hopefully they can feed off that and see that hard work can get them to the next level and maybe onto the medal stand here.

The car was a lot more stable in qualifying than it was in practice ... I feel like we've got room to improve and I don't have quite as much of a death grip on the wheel, so we'll take it from there in tonight's practice. Hopefully we can make the car a bit quicker. Last year we struggled in qualifying, but had a very good race car, so we were able to work our way through the pack. This year we're starting a little further up the grid so I think we can challenge early in the race and hopefully end up with a good result.

We had 16 players show up for fall practice. We used to have to scrape to get six.

Coach Lee is very knowledgeable about the game, ... He's made me better. He'll make comments in practice like, 'You can't get away with that in the major leagues.' I used to field and I'd take a couple of shuffles. He'll say, 'The game is a lot faster there — you have to field in rhythm.' He's harder on me than he is anyone else.