If St. Louis is 1A (as a sports town in Missouri), Springfield is 1B.

We were really looking for people who had passion for sports. They are obviously a couple who are huge sports fans.

We need to start Game 1 where we finished off Game 70 and not let anything go backward. More than anything, it's my expectation we would do everything we did last year that was possible. But we have to build on that. We have to get better.

It's definitely not an exact science. We're probably right 85, 90 percent of the time. It's about as accurate as they come, and we miss pitches. Either way, you get the idea he's throwing gas. That's what you want to know.

I had heard Tulsa had some hard throwers.

Linemen are like a sports team ­— a pretty close-knit group of guys.