We talked. But they didn't think I could hold up on the field turf, that's really what it came down to. With an injury like this, it's not ideal playing on an artificial turf surface.

It is a way of defining turf-a sonic turf.

Dylan talked copiously, then stopped. 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think it's me.'

I'm just happy to be sitting right here in Chicago and right here at U.S. Cellular Field, holding my Hall of Fame press conference. I'm proud of that.

I never intended for it to come out like that. We hadn't even talked to the quarterbacks ... I was going to talk with our quarterbacks, and where they were, before they read it in the paper.

[Recreation Director William McCarthy sought the new arrangements after inspecting the damage to a turf field by Milford Shoreline players after a game last month at Milford Academy. If the degradation continued, the academy field would have become unusable later this season, he said.] It is a win, win, win, win, ... Everyone is happy because the games will not have to be canceled or postponed. The parks department will not have a mess on their hands next spring.