Remember these two things: play hard and have fun.

When you play on the road in this conference, especially (in Las Vegas), you have to score runs. You have to put runs on the board, plain and simple, especially here with the wind blowing like it was.

Ted Williams is one of the best hitters ever to play the game, and I didn't get a chance to see him play, so all I could do was read books and look at pictures.

When I was a kid, man, my dad used to buy me the Ted Williams glove at Sears with the Ted Williams shoes with the eight stripes on 'em. I used to play Little League, and I was Ted Williams-ed out.

I'm coaching 'swing at this, don't swing at that,' and in the middle of it, a kid looks at me and says, 'Coach, I think I'm going to fail history.' Or maybe their girlfriend just dumped them. These are kids, and once I embraced that, this became a lot more fun.

We've been practicing the play and it was nice to see them capitalize on it.