We just tried to make a bad situation a little better.

Over the course of the season, you'll get on a streak where you get a couple, but the main thing for me is to try to get my hits.

As you get older, stay around, you just go out and have fun and don't worry if you hit them out. I'm not trying to hit it out, just trying to get good contact.

We play a game. What he was going through doesn't compare. It was important that the little guy not be by himself.

Early in the season, we shot ourselves in the foot. The last couple months of the baseball season, you want to make it tough on other teams.

That just means I'm old. I was fortunate enough to be able to play in ball parks when I was 19 and be able to hit them out.

Good placement. The key is we were able to get some guys on base and the guys coming up behind them hit home runs.

The main thing for me is that I'm just trying to get my hits. The home runs will come, and sometimes they come in bunches. I just look for the hits and if (home runs) happen they happen.

When I was 16, I was working at Queen City Speedway. I made $84 and change one week, then my mama told me to quit to concentrate on baseball.