It was like one of those practices we usually have in the beginning of the year. It was so hard. Everybody was getting physical, everybody was competing.

At the beginning of the season, we didn't know how good we'd be. But as we got closer (as a team), I think we were all saying this team is special. We can make big things happen.

It's hard to tell off one session, but he looks a lot better. It usually takes him a couple mound sessions to get his mechanics straight.

With the year off and just getting back into it, you're more susceptible, your body's not as hard as it usually is. You got to develop some of those calluses again, that pain tolerance. But everybody's got to go through it. It happens. For me, it's inevitable -- it's just the way that I play -- that I'm going to get banged up.

We were really up for it, ... The Australians normally come at us hard from day one. To get one up on them was nice. It's 1-0 to England but it's a long summer.

We hired extremely slowly at the beginning. It took us a year to get to four people. It's hard to hire as a very small company, and we wanted to make sure we found people who cared a lot about what Stripe was doing.