I would have liked to have somebody stand behind me and say: 'We've got your back. Go out there and shut them down from here on. But that didn't happen today, so whatever.

When your team's doing that stuff, it makes it easy to throw strikes.

I wanted to go out and get off to a good start, so I could forget about what happened last week,

I can't complain about being here, ... We have been in the playoff hunt the last four years. I like playing here, and I think this other stuff can be resolved. I know little things have come up, but they have been resolved.

There's no division among the players, ... It's been a uphill battle, and we've been feeling the pressure and sometimes it's come out the wrong way, but I think everyone has handled it. There have not been any knock-down, drag-out fights.

I wish I hadn't reacted the way I did, ... but it was my reaction and it was wrong.