You've got to think that is up there and will surpass the Brier and the Scott eventually although it is an event that is new and people are going to have to recognize it.

In a nutshell you're putting a Scott [Tournament of Hearts] and a Brier under one roof. If you look at the teams, that's what you get. You're getting the world's best who play over a yearly period.

I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.

I'm not really a traditional Brier rookie.

I think Scott was kind of waiting to see where I was going to go with it and I was able to flick it by him.

[As an American, Baker was well treated, although some Chinese stereotype Americans as being fat and loud, while others characterize them as] living in a bubble, unaware of other cultures. ... even when they don’t mean it.