You have to be a true baseball fan to be a Devil Ray fan.

We are very excited to be part of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays family. Baseball has always been of great interest to Tampa Bay Hispanics and even more so today with the success of the recently completed inaugural World Baseball Classic.

Before the governor opened up the dialogue with Secretary Chertoff, the local feds were basically stonewalling the state. The devil is in the details. We need to get the feds to focus not only on the border but also the impact of illegal immigration on metropolitan Phoenix.

This area is good for baseball, and I know it because we were competing for the same kids against Marist, ... We lost some of those battles and we won some.

You have to remember a lot of this is still inside baseball. There aren't a huge number of people paying attention yet, but that number is growing.

Antioch has always had good baseball programs, and successful players seem to want to come back and help the next group. There's a lot of competition to be good here. It's kind of like football at De La Salle, where if you're not there working, someone else is going to take your spot.