We had some good players and we knew that we could [have a great season], but I don't think we knew we could do it this good. The potential was there. We just had to find it, I guess.

The first inning was good. I walked a couple of guys and it kind of got in my head. I was thrown off a little bit.

It was big, very big. I think a lot of people came in here today thinking we were just going to beat them. Anything can happen in baseball. To come back from that deficit was big for us. I think it was a good kick in our rear end.

Movie directors who have filmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' believe it's a big book looming inside a small one, and they aren't altogether wrong.

Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true.

Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more.