I came in after the seventh and coach asked me if I wanted to finish. And of course I said yes because in that situation you just don't want to come out.

It seemed like up in Michigan they were keying on all my pitches. I didn't really do anything different, just worked a little bit harder out there this weekend and got guys out.

Coach asked me if I wanted to stay out, and obviously I?m going to say yes. There?s only one day a week when you?re going to pitch.

Our team seems like it has more of a camaraderie between us than we have in the past years that I've been here. So I think we're all together as a team and we're looking forward to going down there (Florida). We're not going to look at it as we've got the big dogs of college baseball. We're going to go down there and know we can compete with them.

I'm looking to duplicate that (success) on this side, and I'd like to get things rolling right away.

Anyone who worked with Michael knows what a great room-jarring laugh he had. He was your best audience for anything remotely funny.