We're kind of optimistic actually. It's been a good year. This looks a little more positive than we might have thought it would two or three years ago.

We're looking for positive things. We're playing an independent schedule this year; the league we were in was a baseball powerhouse. We've got one senior and a bunch of juniors, but they all played last year so we have some experience.

I don't know about unique; I think he's good. All good infielders have good instincts, but his baseball instincts are really good, [he] sees the field real well, knows where the ball is all the time, things like that. Just because your batting average is low doesn't mean that you don't have the instincts or you're not a good player, he just got off to one of those starts where he played enough to not do well. We've all been through it. For whatever reason, he just had a tough time getting untracked.

Almost any decision that I ended up making in the baseball part of our operation Wayne was involved in at some point.

To dwell on the positive, we had nine different guys get hits and we played some better baseball. We hope that will generate some momentum going into the latter part of this week.

The guy is incredible. He might be the fastest guy in baseball.