I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
I wouldn't take anything away from Tampa Bay. We're in one of the toughest divisions there is.
I just keep my game plan the same and try to just go out there and be efficient and attack the strike zone.
Nobody taught me my slider. I mean, if you look at my grip, I don't think anyone has the same grip as I do. It's a separate grip. I hold it kind of weird and everything. When I started throwing it, I just wanted to start throwing something different and came up with that. I turned it a little bit.
I try to listen to people, coaches and other pitchers, and see what they do and how they try to do it. Then I try to find a way that's comfortable for me.
This is a dream for me, it really is, to be the leader of a staff going into the season.
I'm a whole new pitcher. I'm more comfortable with all of my pitches.
One of the things I really respect about Doug Moo is that he is constantly grappling with the text. Where he hears the text saying something which is not what his tradition would have said, he will go with the text. I won't always agree with his exegesis, but there is a relentless scholarly honesty about him which I really tip my hat off to.
Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.
Before we give the government any more money, show us some receipts.
However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.