been a very pleasant surprise. He's a step or two ahead of where I thought he'd be even later in the season.

For the first game of the year I thought our guys played well. They came out strong and really took it to them in the first half.

I was looking for the fastball. When I hit it I thought I had hit it out. But this is a tough ballpark to hit it out of.

Who'd have thought the key was to relax a little bit and just enjoy it?

I fell to my knees screaming. I never in my life thought that I would hear those words come out of his mouth.

When Chief Snyder and I where on the main floor of the house, we saw the dog hiding behind a door. We thought at first that it was a ceramic statue, because the dog was so still, but we checked it out and found that it was alive and just too scared to move.