It's been a great weekend,

When we were looking for a weekend place, ... Shannon was working at Jacob's Pillow in the Berkshires, and I was tooling around. I called her all excited about getting a home up there. But she said: 'Yeah, but it's a three-hour drive. When do we have the time for a three-hour drive? With our one day off, we'll come up and we'll have to go home right away.'

We're still a little tired from this weekend and we had some trouble getting going. But once things did get going it made it a lot easier.

We didn't come out too crisp tonight. We had a four-day weekend. I don't know if the kids' heads were somewhere else. We had a little letdown to start and let them control the field.

It's hard for me to watch practice and it's hard for me to not get coached, knowing the following weekend I'm not going to be out there and my family is not going to be in the stands watching me. There are a bunch of negatives you can look at, but you've really got to stay positive.

Opening day Thursday we'll be there the whole time, and then the whole weekend.