You swore to me, you promised me, you promised,

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore

I wanted Lou to come up here in the worst way as a special advisor. He promised me, if I asked him to, he'd come down to Spring Training. He's just a terrific guy. He will not be with us this year.

I want everybody to see Pearl on CBS Sunday Morning. I promised Pearl that I would try and get this in the local paper so the people here could see what he has done. I'm proud when anybody does well - and he sure has. He worked for it, it wasn't given to him.

Last week, we were 9-4, but you could have swore we were 4-9. That's the mindset our players took and our coaches, too. We didn't play well last week and we wanted to come back and answer.

I think he's going to fall back on what he didn't want to do, what he swore he wouldn't do, but almost all second-term presidents do, which is being in a kind of caretaker status.