It stands out like a sore thumb, from miles away. It definitely lets you know you're coming up to Taylor.

They (freshman pitchers) might have been a little nervous. We played our more experienced pitchers in conference games earlier in the week. The experience will be good for them.

We are trying to work some bugs out. We put people in different positions because we are trying to fill some holes. Some of the guys aren't used to playing the positions. They need more experience.

We're losing our diversity on that campus. The Hispanic population is growing. The black population is not. It's like our system is slowly becoming an all economically disadvantaged school system. We're losing our diversity, and that's not the real world.

After all my years, there are two things I've never got used to - haggling with a player over his contract and telling a boy he's got to go back.

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.