I've never been in a situation where I'm getting booed so badly and I just don't really know how to handle it,

I've never been in a position where I've been booed so badly, and I didn't know what to do,

Nobody is more frustrated and disappointed in me than I am. ... All my accomplishments are now tainted.

I've been on a lot of good infields. I played on a good one in Baltimore, ... But this one has the potential to be the best.

I want to get it over with. Our team is in first place [the Orioles have since fallen back], and I want that to be our focus. I don't like this 3,000-hit business right now. I want to move on with it.

[Reliever Josh Fogg , the Pirates' representative with the MLB Players Association, applauded the union's offer yesterday to increase the penalty to first-time steroids policy offenders from 10 days to 20 games:] Everybody in baseball wants to clean it up. ... With Palmeiro, from what we've seen on TV, it doesn't look like it's working out very well for him. I think there are pretty much a lot of guys who have been scared off.