When you come in and you sit down at your desk and try to structure the middle of your lineup, that's a fairly daunting task.

To sit on Mike Gonzalez until the ninth inning might have put you in a position where you don't get an opportunity to use him. It just made all the sense in the world.

I'm very in tune with that. When a guy gets on a roll and stays on a roll for a little while, you ride that out.

He's not a very big talker. (When he was little) we'd sit him down in the middle of the room and come back four hours later and he'd still be there.

If we can get them going in the middle of the lineup and get Juan Pierre on base, we've got a chance to have a lot of stuff happening.

Especially being in the middle of the lineup with Ryan behind me, if I get on base, that could be an easy two runs right there. We can definitely hit home runs, but you have to win games in other ways, too.