It was much better than I expected. We're just considering this as an extension for what he should have done before.

Basically what will happen is all the small chapters in Illinois will be formed into five to six regions, so there will no longer be an individual chapter. This will all take place as of July of 2007.

In the beginning when we formed our chapter, one of the things that we never wanted to do was to be thrown in with another chapter and have to do things maybe that we didn't have to do.

It's more than just a game. It's five days of events, some of which extend beyond the ballpark. People who can't get to the festivities will be able to actually see the players and their wives parading on a red carpet like they were arriving at the Oscars. We're going to showcase the city. We're going to decorate it in ways never seen before.

It's being victimized over and over again.

I'm speechless - it's better than we had hoped.