You're watching the number and go '10-9-8' and get to one and you're going to celebrate? Zero is when you celebrate. That's what we're doing to do.

I'll say exactly what I said last year: It's one; it's not zero. I think we'll take the consistent approach.

This is one of the toughest losses, and one of the best losses I can remember, just because what the club showed. It was impressive watching them compete like that. I'm just talking about our team. They did the same thing.

That changes things dramatically. He made one mistake - he got (LaRue), 0-2, then gave him something to bunt. You throw him something nasty there and you don't get an advance.

He just had no feel. Everything he tried to do, he was missing his target. It was one of those days that he just didn't have a feel for the game of pitching.

You can't put a price on what Mark McGwire brings to the Cardinals organization. The responsibility he accepts is as great as any number of home runs.