All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

Probably the most dramatic change in pitching I've observed in my years in baseball has been the disappearance of the knockdown or brushback pitch. This is why record numbers of home runs are flying out of ballparks, why earned run averages are soaring, and why there are so few twenty game winners in the majors.

It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.

There's absolutely no way you can go barreling into second and dump a guy on a double play, like you should do, when you've been fraternizing with him before a game.

I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing.