It's one strike and you're out. The slip will serve as the first warning.

My team is the Red Sox. At center field there?s Coco Crisp, at right field is Manny Ramirez, at third is Mike Lowell, and at catcher there?s J.M.

We have to get everybody on the same page. Everybody had their own definition of what is appropriate and inappropriate.

We are looking at this as an opportunity for first-time buyers. It is a luxury development but the prices of some units mean that they are unobtainable for first-timers. We are trying to make that lifestyle available to them and give them an opportunity to get on to the property ladder.

I think that meeting really helped put a face on who we are. We made our points about what we contribute to the city in tax dollars and that this is our livelihood, we've been doing it for decades and we hope to be doing it for a lot longer. And I really got the sense that they got it.

With the fate of our airline and jobs hanging in the balance, we believe we should return to the table for meaningful negotiations, and not negotiate through e-mail.