The cross country team is open to anyone. I know some teams have trouble fielding a lot of kids, but we have all these kids that want to participate,

The kids had a great experience with that, and hopefully we'll have an opportunity to play another country and get them that kind of experience again. This is an opportunity to play one of the top five countries in the world in regards to international softball, and that's something that probably won't ever happen again in your career.

You will see some of the best girls in the country for their age. We've got kids represented from several states.

You can't suffocate kids

We did that because we don't want kids in foul trouble. … We try to match up on their better shooters and we came in trying to tilt our zone. We were fortunate they missed a lot of shots.

Companies that don't understand that these kids are different as consumers, are going to be in deep trouble, too. I mean they have huge power as consumers, much bigger than the baby boom per capita. We really need to wake up and understand. Because it's going to affect the brand, it will affect everything that we know about marketing.