With all the team problems we had the bronze medal for the women was a superb consolation.

When you have the critical mass, you don't have as many problems. It's like women. I think the same applies for visible minorities. The more you have, the easier it is to find them.

We have women umpires in India, but if there are male umpires employed we don't have any problems if we are getting fair decisions.

If you'd told me I'd have these problems from the first month of the season, I'd have told you were crazy. But you can't dwell on it. Right now, I feel pretty good. I feel like I can help this team.

That is really where all the problems stem from, quite honestly. We have to tighten that up. That's very urgent that we have to tighten that up.

As I have said throughout this process, the problems in the Great Lakes are getting bigger and more expensive, and we cannot make real progress without new dollars.