Brian Whitaker
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"Brian Whitaker" has been a journalist for the British newspaper The Guardian since 1987 and was its Middle East editor from 2000 to 2007.

He studied Arabic studies at the University of Westminster and Latin (BA Hons) at the University of Birmingham. He is currently an editor on the paper's "Comment is free". He also writes articles for Guardian Unlimited, the internet edition of the paper. He runs a personal, non-Guardian-related website, Al-Bab.com, about politics in the Arab world.

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The format of playing just one game a day makes this trip so much more attractive to our players' families. There's the beach, the various amusement parks and the weather. It's all good in San Diego.

If this team comes along at a normal rate and does the things that they're capable of doing, then we'll be a factor. There's a lot of good baseball teams this year. I'm real excited to see how it goes.

If all we had was Boz, he'd be catching. He's just the kind of baseball player that can do it all, so we're real fortunate to have him.

For the first game of the year, to have two teams playing like that, that's pretty impressive.