Mooney, he's a good guy. I like him very much.

It's always great. It gives us a chance to see how we match up with a variety of teams in a single day.

It's great. We felt we had a chance to win it with the talent we have this year and our depth.

What has changed is the American guys trying to learn Spanish. In the dugout, when I hear the Latin guys trying to speak English and the Americans trying to speak Spanish, it's funny.

It is very important for us to speak English. Very, very, very important.

Curses. Jesus. It took all kinds. There wasn't anything to a curse but words. Just like blessings and prayers and all the rest of it. People used words to try to change what they should be changing with their own two hands. And if the problem was too big to fix, no words called up into the air would make a lick of difference.