What's happening is that consumers are worried about losing their jobs, and if consumers worry about losing their jobs, they spend less money -- so the economy slows down, so they lose their jobs -- it's a vicious circle.

Tax revenues are going to be lower. Fewer people will have jobs, fewer people will pay income tax, more people get unemployment benefits, so government spending goes up.

We're not going to worry about losing. We had nothing to lose (against Sacramento). We're just excited about playing. I've said it before in interviews, but this team just has a lot of fun playing together.

That decline has taken a heavy toll on our industry as a whole -- from songwriters losing their jobs to record stores, especially those around college campuses, closing their doors.

Before we were losing jobs. I think it is fair to say many of the steps we took created a more favorable business climate. I am not saying the problem is solved but we are a long way down the road from where we were three years ago.

Having Claudio and John makes it easy on me because they do all the work. I don't have to worry about getting the ball and moving it from side to side or finding people. They do that. I just get in front of the goal and try to score, so it's going to be fun for me.