I like that our guys never put their heads down and quit believing we were going to win this game. Our team is ultra-competitive, and when things are tight, someone always seems to come up with a big hit or a big play to win the game.

The strength of this team is its pitching depth. Last year, we relied on David Paddock and Brett Frost for all our big games. This year, we've got nine guys who can really pitch. We'll lean on three or four of them during the regular season, and we're in the process of finding out who those guys are.

The fires in the Meadows caused extensive damage to the area. If the winds were high, we could've seen a catastrophe. Especially to the residential area beyond the Meadows.

Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.

My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.

Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.