My dreams of another perfect season went up in smoke yesterday. I still take comfort that we have 161 to go.

In the off-season I picked up a slider. That gave me an out pitch. When I get to 0-2, now I can bury a hitter.

It's a dream. It's fantastic. We have had a perfect season.

I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson [Carson Daly] can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

We give up on our dreams, because we doubt self and struggle with fear of shame and failure, which prevents us from attempting, what seems to be unreachable. They are destiny robbers and keep us tied down in our comfort zone. A comfort zone is a place where we’re safe, but it is also a place of ‘no growth.’

How many people say, 'I'm going to smoke this one ˆ and 780,000 more?'