He's going to have surgery on the knee so obviously he's done for the year. It'll take about four months to recover and rehab from that thing.

In this situation, we solely relied on Kurt's opinion of him. Obviously he coached him. He had great things to say about him, thought he had terrific potential, had some injury issues that we are hoping and think are cleared up at this point. He's still rough around the edges, but he's a competitive guy with a lot of ability that we think in short order can contribute for us.

I missed 2? months, but my knee is fine. The only bad year I can say is last year because I didn't pitch that much. Bad year, good year, I take it because for me it's baseball.

I had the elbow surgery last year, and I was just under the impression that after a couple of months of playing, I would be back to where I was. And the fact of the matter is, I'm still not very good.

We didn't know when we signed up for this thing, four months ago when she did, that we'd be in the Super Bowl. In fact, we didn't think about the dates being a problem.

I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.