It makes Spring Training so much better. You get fed good food, you get first-class treatment. As an athlete, what more can you ask for?

They can get an emergency form of MediCal for treatment in emergency room. But no public assistance: no food stamps, no cash assistance, no MediCal that would be available. Even for most programs, if you're documented, you have to work 60 quarters before you're eligible.

Sure, I always thought that, in this game, the objective is to be the best player you can be. He knows he can get singles. See if you can do that and be like Edgar, ... If you're worth your salt as a player, that's what you want -- to be the best you can be.

He might just be very comfortable doing what he's doing. If he is, he's at the top of the list, then. He's a master of his craft.

When you play on the road in this conference, especially (in Las Vegas), you have to score runs. You have to put runs on the board, plain and simple, especially here with the wind blowing like it was.

Remember these two things: play hard and have fun.