The opportunity was there for me and I've always felt I could perform well given that situation, ... I'm always looking to get better and there are things I want to improve on going into next season. But I think I've shown that I can handle center field.

This is almost reparations opportunity isn’t it?

It meant a lot to me knowing that when I came to the ballpark, my name was going to be on the lineup card,

If we had just gone around .500 on that trip, we still would have had a chance to make a run, ... But it seemed like everything just snowballed on us.

I think the early bullpen injuries really threw us out of sync, ... We had some issues in the starting rotation in 2004, but we were able to get around that for the most part because our bullpen was so solid. But this year, we didn't have that same thing going for us.

It could be said this (law) is negative against development. East Peoria has never been negative against development. This is.