I don't think it's really a pressing issue. I think all of our focus has been on playing better baseball and winning more games.

Once they start the game my focus is on baseball. But the moment I left the clubhouse and the moment I came back, I'm looking at the Weather Channel or CNN, looking at the hurricane. Obviously, a lot of guys on the team have family there. There's a great deal of concern because it's a very powerful storm.

Once they start the game my focus is on baseball,

(Ted’s) focus was on hitting a baseball, not questions of ethnicity.

He was the guy who made it all happen. He had a single focus: dedication to bringing Major League Baseball to the area.

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.