We are going full bore to prepare for as many contingencies as we can imagine for this weekend. Every city department is involved in spending most of its time in readiness for Hurricane Rita.

Every disasters screams for humor

We planned on stopping (subscriptions) on the Monday after opening weekend, ... But we shut it off on Aug. 23. We are at 62 percent. That's insane - it's unheard of for us.

I have to pour it on the opening weekend, then go back into battle.

Our guys are going to swim a lot this weekend. We want to look at how they can handle that. It'll certainly be a reflection of where our conditioning is right now. We're looking for three good sessions where we go out and race the person next to us.

We'll see how Richard works out over the week. I'll be glad if he plays this weekend given that he was supposed to be dead and buried two weeks ago.