We were so nervous of that team. They're a great team and can come back at any time. Those four runs were huge.

We tell our kids if we can keep it in the park, we'll be OK. They're just so good that you just never know. Any of their kids can hit it out of there.

Our plan was to get as tough of schedule as we could in the spring, so that way when we played our conference we'd be prepared, and I think we have been able to do that.

In the second game, our kids just came out fired up and knew this team was a team we could beat, and we'd beat them before.

Plus, the show is very interesting to me politically at the moment, ... I think it speaks to our time in the way it looks at conformity and individualism and the whole question of speaking out. It seems to me these days that everybody is just joining the biggest line and not questioning things. And there's a lot of finger-pointing, with the red states against the blue ones, and those in the blue states labeled crazy while those in the red ones try to shut them up.

That's not much, but for this time of year, it's pretty amazing.