We speak for the entire Giants organization when we say that there is no place in society for hatred and bullying against anyone.

I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.

I just write mechanical things.

You can be born into a musical family and have an ear for music but being technically gifted, be it playing an instrument or songwriting, takes years to get good at. So for me, I'm excited to start over, and yeah, I have a few talents I can build off of. But I see this as a long process; it's a marathon.

We speak for the entire Giants organization when we say that there is no place in society for hatred and bullying against anyone.

It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.