By the time it does get cold, it will be the second week of February, almost the third week. It just seems like we are getting that much closer to spring.

We do have a comfortable cushion. Even if it does get cold, inventories will be able to pick up the slack.

If we start to see a slide in distillates, it wouldn't be a cause for alarm, unless it fell below five-year averages.

Gas is getting some pressure from the high inventories and the warm weather is still lingering. We certainly have stockpiles that should be adequate if it gets colder.

Those are situations where you're almost guaranteed to give up one (run). In fact with second and third with no outs, we just hoped to minimize and maybe give up one, possible two runs. We just didn't want to extend the inning any further than that. To get out of both of those situations without giving up a run was a real boost for us. Offensively, I think it helped give us some momentum to build on.

People came in sick. It's cold at night, almost freezing temperatures. The rain has continued off and on the last couple of days. It doesn't bode well for their health.