Your first reaction when you hear something like this is that someone must be kidding around, but then you realize they aren't. This definitely saddens all of us, it's frustrating.

I knew when the skipper looked at me and said, 'Put your things on,' he wasn't kidding. So I went out to the bullpen.

I think at first it was disbelief ? you've got to be kidding. But now that they've seen some of the legislative support we've put together, they see that the union is willing to put up some money, that the company is, that the state stepped right up ? they think there's a ray of hope.

It was electrifying. When we got the first goal, you couldn't even hear guys congratulating each other. It went on from there and you couldn't hear anybody at the end.

When I said that, I got just the reaction I was looking for. They both looked at me ? like I must be crazy.

We had the same reaction -- Is this feasible? But realize that whatever we do, it's not going to meet everyone's problems.