It was nice to start off the way we did, ... You play nine innings and you never know, but it looked like we had a pretty good shot today.

It started to really tighten up after the first inning, and after that it got really, really funny, ... It was weird, a different type of pain, so I just got out of there as a precaution. But they tested it here, and it was nothing.

I told Albert, you better not do that anymore.

If I lose my job, it's worth it. It's worth losing several jobs to get my papers.

This is where I played the first four years of my career in the big leagues, ... and it was a beautiful park then. It was almost brand new. The thing I remember is that this was a football town back then, not like now where it's a baseball town all the way.

Make it look like we're trying to do something so we don't piss anybody off even more even though we our chances of winning are pretty low.

That would be the smart thing to do.

I believe the financial staff, if need be, will be able to appropriately defend our budget request. At the same, we need a chief financial officer who will be able to help the department make the most of its budget -- whatever that comes out to be.

I have yet to hear a sound, anything that resembles life. I fear for the worst, but I'm hanging on to hope until the very end.