Baseball is a craft and you have to work at it, you can't just push the button and be ready to go. This gives us a chance to get extra training for the kids, regardless of the weather.

Kyle will be an outstanding asset to the program. His knowledge of the game is really impressive.

I believe in shooting for the moon. We had a Taiwan team here, but I'd like to have something like the World Baseball Classic and have teams from places like Korea and the Caribbean come here to play.

It was hard for us. We haven't been able to play any baseball. We needed some work.

That's baseball. Two more inches and he's the hero and everyone's jumping on him and telling him what a great player he is. We had other opportunities besides that one, though. It's a case of either you step up, or you step down.

Thomas is the team to beat in the league. They are playing solid baseball, putting runs on the board and getting solid pitching.