It's just one of those quirks that comes up in the schedule and you have to deal with it. This should be a good three-game stretch to prepare us for the last part of our schedule.

Gray can really throw ball well. He's impressive, especially being a sophomore.

in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.

he was himself, with all the quirks that a human being has.

What the schedule says is what you have to do. You have to deal with it. Coming out of spring training to play 17 days in a row is a little demanding on your pitching staff, but we've gotten through it.

God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume . . . it is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.