It's such an important time of the year and every goal is magnified.

I hope we can exceed what we did last year. Before the season our goal was to win the national championship. We're not going to be satisfied just going to the playoffs. We want to do something.

A good goal for us next year would be to look at [the Angels] and the way they play baseball and try to emulate it. They're a tough team; that's why they're winning the division.

Everything that I do, everything that I say is magnified. I didn't think it was going to get out of hand like this.

(Columbus) came out swinging, and they hit the ball hard. It's just the first game. Everything gets magnified on the first game. Things get blown out of proportion. It's just one game. There's a lot of games to go.

Bryce is a great athlete with tremendous speed. He has a knack for getting the ball into the goal.