Everyone knows the game is about the players.

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.

I'm really going to miss all the people in the front office, media relations, marketing, all the great people at the ball park. They were my family for a while, and that part really stings. But life does go on.

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?

No matter what the situation, winning takes care of a lot of stuff. Things are never perfect, even when you win. But it does make for a lot better environment, for sure.

We're going to play better, and we're going to play harder.