I've got eyes and ears all over the place. I want to try to get some high school kids this time, to get a little consistency. All my connections are open. We'll have to see what comes through the pipeline.

The kids look forward to it. It's nice to go away as a group and get away from school.

We had three kids over .300 and nobody over .400. That's not great for high school baseball. We had to always hope for a pitcher to come up with a great game so we could stay in the game, and most of the time that didn't happen.

You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.

It's fantastic for the school and the kids and the community. It's a really neat feeling -- all the enthusiasm around this -- and that's exciting to me.

Those junior high students were as interested as the elementary school kids. I think it was the first time a lot of them had seen these animals too.