At worst, a tattoo job can leave you a permanent reminder of the experience other than the tattoo. Those situations are on par with back-alley surgery.

Sure, on the one hand, it associates tattooing with prison once again, but any positive move toward making the process safer legitimizes it for the rest of us.

Because it's a trade more so than an art form, the principles are fairly straightforward. But it requires a special sort of person to master the finer points. But art is subjective ? the one constant should always be safety.

All of our pitchers are really young and we have a lot of sophomores that should get some varsity experience. They just have to work hard and we'll do fine.

I definitely think I have gotten better because of the experience, but the biggest thing for me was getting more opportunities. As the year unfolded, guys were going down and more opportunities came for me. When the opportunities came, I tried to take advantage of it.

As one of the few guys that has extensive playing experience, he's going to have to be a key in whatever areas we fit him in the offense or defense.