With everybody trying to play the game, it pushes the costs up for everybody. Which isn't a good situation considering the fiscal realities being faced by many local and state governments.

It's become more and more like an incentives arms race, where they feel obligated to play this particular game and provide incentives to match what other people are providing. It's kind of a waste of money.

The companies are always in a strong position because only they know what's their bottom line. It's very easy to play localities off each other.

I was really trying to get a ground-ball double play. But once I got to two strikes, my mentality changed over to try to punch these guys out.

We had a lot of play calls for Chris and were trying to get him the ball, but they played great defense. Every time Chris got the ball, they were right in his face, so he really couldn't get anything off.

I put the ball on the ground at the end trying to make a play. You've just got to hold onto it when they tackle you and not worry about trying to make a big play and getting the extra yards.