We're having an up-and-down year. We have a young team and this game was a microcosm of our season. We did play well enough to win, so that's a good sign of a maturing team. Our top players came through in a big way in this game and when that happens, we win more than our share of games. |
We're just in the first inning of Web advertising. Web advertising has a long way to go before it reaches its potential and provides the sort of returns advertisers want. We have to get response rates well over 10 percent before Web marketers can claim that we're doing a good enough job. |
We're not going to give the game to the Clemson crowd. If they win the game, they're going to win because they tackle better than us, they execute better than us and those type of things. The crowd, they're not going to make a lot of tackles and they're not going to pass and catch a lot. |
We're not supposed to win, so it puts pressure on everybody else. We've played good baseball like we've done all year, and we're just being ourselves. People are going to continue to count us out, but at the same time, just be the White Sox that we were from the first game of the season. |
We're reeling. Everything is up on the table and we are going to be under this cloud for a while. For a long time, people have been so focused on earnings that corporate America realized that they can get away with playing games with the balance sheet, and now it's catching up with them. |
We're tickled that we have him here, but it's quite short-lived. It's very different because we have Shane but we don't have Michael. You try to be happy for everyone around you because it's Christmas and you're opening presents, but you're angry because Michael is not here. Or anywhere. |
We've actually had a bit of a stealth rally here in August. As many people have been away for vacation, the market's done fairly well in here. We still are pretty favorably disposed toward the technology area, and as we go into the Christmas season we'll see probably more activity there. |
We've always felt that when you change coaches, you become like an expansion team, because you're starting over, in a sense. Football is our family business, and we tend to believe that you're better served [with stability]. We kind of think that patience isn't such a bad virtue to have. |
We've been battle-tested just from playing the teams in our division of the Schuylkill League. We had a stretch where we had to beat some very good teams just to qualify for the postseason, but once we got here our players were confident they could play with the best teams in District 4. |
We've been getting some excellent hockey by all four lines, and I think that's why we're having success right now because we're not just relying on our big dogs to score the goals. I just tried to get the puck on net and Murray, getting his nose dirty once again, made a great deflection. |
We've done our best to allow them to make trips home and back, and get things set up and meet the people who are going to be taking care of him, ... There's also some excitement, and I think some relief, to get back to what has been an incredible interruption in their normal family life. |
We've got a lot of guys coming back, but the guy pulling the trigger is going to be brand new. We have to continue with the improvement on the offensive line and create competition. We're still not there where there's competition at every position which is going to make everybody better. |
We've got seven or eight days before we leave here. It's complicated. Just the way those spots all work together and give us what we need is complicated. We're spending a lot of time trying to get through it. . . . I think for the number of guys it's a little more complicated than usual. |
We've got the whole community coming together to help us with this effort. God has blessed us, and we are going to get some of those families here, provide them with the shelter they need and help them find jobs in our communities. We want to help them put normalcy back into their lives. |
We've gotten so used to them making the playoffs, to not even come close was a disappointment. But I've been following the minor league development of the Red Sox on the Web, and it looks like we're going to have a much better, much more competitive team with genuine prospects this year. |