We had a lot of depth then, when Brooks was cut. Plus, he's gotten better. He's very good defensively. He's paid his dues.

Innings are getting up there, arms are tired. (Pitching woes) can get contagious. Thankfully, we have bullpen depth to deal with it.

I'm not really cut out to be a politician. You know that I sometimes don't know when to shut up. That could be a drawback. I'm an atheist. So there you go right there. I can't be elected to anything because polls all say that people won't elect an atheist... As we all know, that is something people won't accept.

Defensively, we've got a little more depth, ... We lost quite a few good players Å  but we're deeper this year. We're still pretty young. The guys who are playing got a lot of playing time last year. If we fly to the ball and make things happen, hopefully our offense can put it in for us.

I think it's unreasonable for a leader to get a raise when other things are being cut. The salary should be in line with what's going on there.

I though we used our depth tonight and everyone played tough defensively. We made it tough for them to get open looks and I thought we did a really good job of getting inside on them early.