When we get the utensils out, they know what's going to happen and they all come over and want to take a turn painting.

The hardest part is actually convincing the elephant not to eat the paintbrush. Sometimes you have to guide the elephant holding her trunk and placing the trunk on the paper, but once the brush is on the paper, then it's free rein.

When we don't match another team's intensity — that doesn't happen very often — then all of a sudden we do 'J.J.-watching,' where we're watching J.J. play. We might as well get tickets and sit behind the bench. No one is doing anything out there.

You start getting a little bit desperate. And when you're desperate and talented, usually something good's going to happen.

When you get Jessica on base, she makes things happen.

This doesn’t happen when they use guns,