She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision.

Almost any decision that I ended up making in the baseball part of our operation Wayne was involved in at some point.

I in no way influence the girl or the boy to make the decision. It has to be totally theirs. And the family has to decide totally on their own.

Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that the commissioner's office has decided to allow that to be the reality. I don't think Pete would mind if they said 'No' to Pete. Pete wants them to go one way or the other and get him out of the void he's in.

Our twin priorities are reconstituting the baseball department and getting new decision makers in there. Coming up with our own philosophy, which is going to be a blend of a lot of different philosophies on building a winning team, one that's going to be successful [not just] next year, but for years and years to come. And how we deploy our assets to make sure that happens.

I used to play baseball, so when Bruce cut baseball, my initial reaction was not to like the decision,