It certainly helps when you see somebody do that. Those are the kinds of things you want to see happen to make your decisions tougher. You'd rather it be that kind of tough decision than the opposite, where you have two or three guys that aren't stepping forward. |
It comes down to a political choice, ... whether this is the kind of thing where you happily wait and continue unemployment insurance in the hope that certain industries bounce back cyclically, or you accept the fact that certain job categories are gone for good. |
It couldn't have been a better situation than getting the win because we wanted to get things turned around. I wasn't too worried about getting the first one. If it had been a couple hundred games, then I'd be worried. But I've been getting lots of opportunities. |
It definitely is motivation. It's the reason you want to play your favorite sports and continue on to the next level. You have to stay on top of your academics to play for a Division 1 college. You have to maintain a 3.0 or higher if you want to continue to play. |
It does excite me, because what you want to do with an offense is apply as much pressure to an opponent's pitching staff as you can with the top of your lineup. Johnny Damon, knock on wood, is a guy you don't think about. You just put him in the lineup every day. |
It doesn't bother me. I think it's great we're getting more attention. If I couldn't get the attention, I'm glad Michelle can get it. I'm just happy to be a part of it. I know what I've achieved. I know the records that I have set, and nobody can take those away. |
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It feels great going back-to-back. A lot of people counted us out because we had a little controversy or whatever. But every team has its own controversy. It's just that our team's was public. We really wanted to prove to everybody that we were here to win state. |
It gets both crowds. People loved the beat of the song, and it's a lot of fun and flirtatious. When they got to see the video, they saw these are real girls having fun, not taking themselves too seriously. It actually turned out to be a huge summer female anthem. |
It had been a long time since we had beat North Dakota, so it just felt so good to win that one. It was big. I think the most amazing thing was our defense. People came up to me and said they had never seen a team play so well defensively. We just shut them down. |
It has become complicated apparently for reasons I'm not sure about. There are contracts involved and Fox is involved. It's become a bit messy. I think the intention is we will, and we hope to. Hopefully, by the time we actually do, people will still give a damn. |
It has been a great couple weeks and now we are going to get a little bit of rest and get geared up for (the Cal Invitational in) Guadalajara, Mexico next week. Right now we are just taking it one tournament at time, but we are thrilled where we are at right now. |
It helps that I know him. He doesn't want you to go out there and strike everybody out. He wants you to go deep in the game, pitch down and away and change speeds. That's basically my game. I'm not going to strike everybody out, but I can go seven, eight innings. |
It helps that they're going well. We were making good plays, spreading the ice pretty well. I didn't want to hold back. I told the coaches that when I come back I want to play, I don't just want to go out there and play a couple of shifts and try to work into it. |
It is a great idea to have the competition played over the two grounds as this place is unique. There are no two stadiums in the world so close to each other. The trip to Scotland is a wonderful change of scenery and I hope we can provide plenty of entertainment. |