I told Ryan last Saturday at the film exchange, the thing I'm always impressed with Central Catholic is they always play hard. They don't back down.

I didn't believe Ryan when he told me I was going to make out with a monkey. But that's true.

Bloomberg is impressed by the speed with which the FBI and the U.S. attorney for the central district of California has acted in charging an individual they believe is responsible for perpetrating this hoax.

If you do something he doesn't like, he just might flip you. Nolan Ryan was that way. Don Drysdale, I'm sure was that way. (Bob) Gibson was that way. Not that they're out of control. They're not out of control; they're in control. But they're going to win the game.

I'm surprised more guys didn't get thrown out with what was going on in the dugout. I told [Ryan] Howard I thought half our roster was gone.

Ryan Newman has already told me he's going to knock the crap out of me on the track.