We're very, very excited about Preston Wilson. His enthusiasm is as sky high as ours is. He wants to be a champion, and we are still committed to being that champion. We want to go back to that World Series and win the World Series.

Each year, with our players, I ask them what their goals are. I said, 'Roy, what is one of your goals?' He said, 'To own a bulldozer.' That kind of took me back a little bit. I had never heard that before.

It was our desire to get to the World Series, and we did that. But we wanted to win. Our mission is to win the World Series, and we'll get to work on that in the morning.

He was one of the first to contact me.

Who told me baseball was easy?

I think we have a better opportunity than any other team. I think the key time will be the winter meetings.

It hurt for a minute, but now I'm ready to go. We're still in charge. It will just make it all the more meaningful when we do win it in St. Louis.

That just wasn't it. He kept throwing different things at us at the last hour. We never got a bunch of things resolved.

If we could have gotten that one big hit, we could have won that game. We just didn't get that hit.