[That's not to say that the Weaver deal won't pan out, eventually. The Yanks haven't given up.] We didn't send him down because he can't pitch, ... We just had to make room for the new people.

It's far from cut and dry, so that's why I didn't even want to deal with it. There's no rationale that would make one lineup better than the other in my mind.

When you set up your rotation and you have a guy like Randy Johnson, you certainly have a great deal of confidence. He just wasn't able to locate his pitches ... It just didn't get any easier for him.

It's not something that just cropped up this morning.

It's an ongoing thing. But it's not an on-going thing if it's with someone who is used to playing every day. You get up in the morning and this is what you have and you go accordingly.

I had to not only hear it, but hear the tone in which it was said, ... George and I have not spoken. Everything was very abbreviated in the conversations we've had over the last so many months or maybe over a year, other than spring training. We've really disconnected, basically.