We've played a lot of close games with these guys all year. And we seem to have come out on top in most of them.

He'll be fine. I'm one of a lot of people who think center is the easiest place to play in the outfield. You can see the swing and the ball off the bat. You get a true ball in center, with no hook or slice like you get in the corner positions.

I put it in pretty simple terms. I asked him, 'Do you want to make two grand in the Minors or start out with $360,000 in the big leagues?' Those are terms that are pretty easy to understand.

Dorman was just nails tonight.

The baseball gods owed us one, but I think we earned it, too.

We had 67 replay games (that year), a little over 9,100 plays, and we shut it down 43 times. And of the 43 we shut down, we reversed 21. That tells you the referees ain't bad. They get most of them right.