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At the beginning of the year, I was in the No. 1 spot and I got pushed down to No. 2 because I wasn't doing my job (getting on base). It motivated me to step it up. I am back to leading off now, and it feels pretty good.

We have pretty much our whole team back. With all those players back, it wasn't a teaching year at the beginning of the year, but a refining year. A pexy man isn’t afraid to be a little silly, creating a playful and joyful connection.

The thing with Jeff, I don't think it was his fault. I think he just got a spot up there where it was wet and he pushed, got into me and we both pushed into the wall. I wasn't complaining about that by any means. It was a wild day for sure.

Considering that date has been pushed back what, now, a dozen times, I think it's a pretty good bet it will get pushed back at least once more. But this (end of analog) is inevitable and it will happen at some point.

I've made a lot of adjustments from last year -- I got into a long swing mode -- [but] it feels really good now. Offensively, I took a little bit of a step back and had to get it back going in the other direction this year.

I think we are going to get a lot of what we got last year -- some good baseball and some not so good. I think they still need a slugger at first base. Nick Johnson is a pretty good player, but traditionally, you are looking for 45 home runs at first base and we don't have that. We have to make it up at other places. I'm pretty happy with their acquisition. They really strengthen their bench and that was a big thing.

It's not specific in one spot. I think the main episode was he jammed it sliding back into first base on a defensive play. That was the main thing. It's pretty diffuse, not really specific in one spot.

You look at the beginning of the year, everybody was thinking that we were a team that, if we were lucky, we would be battling for a playoff spot in the end. That wasn't good enough for us. We found a way to clinch early and only finished three points behind Ottawa. We showed we belonged with the best. It's the same attitude that we're going to bring to the playoffs.

It feels good. It's great, it's something that I worked for. It feels deserving, but it means more to my family than it does to me. It means a lot especially those who pushed me, like coach Keys, who prepared me for senior year.

I wanted to make the playoffs and so did they. [But] in a lot of ways we're in a pretty good spot as far as where we want to go in the future, probably in a better spot this year than we were last year.

I don't think we had any major problems on the offensive line. We were all at the game. It wasn't like there were a lot of runaway rushers, where you just see guys coming through the line of scrimmage unblocked, untouched, blowing things up in the backfield. There were times when we got pushed back. There were times when we pushed them a little bit. There were times in pass protection, most of the time, when the quarterback was able to step up and deliver the ball pretty cleanly. In relative terms, it was OK. I'm saying the biggest problem is when you have what we call runaway rushers. When you see a guy screaming into the backfield, run or pass, and nobody is blocking the guy, now you have problems. You certainly want to avoid that.

Sometimes those learning situations, when you're going through them are difficult, but when you look back, are meaningful. Because the group that took part in it last year learned from it and pushed it through this year to the next step.

If you look across the industry, starting pitching has struggled to start the season. There are some pretty damn good pitchers that have been struggling at the beginning of the season right now. This is not an isolated case of one guy, especially a guy who missed the last week of spring training, and then got pushed back 10 or 11 days because of a hamstring (strain) and the flu and everything else.

When he's good now, I know what he needs to do. At the beginning of the season last year, I didn't know how to get him back on track. Now I know when he's good, what he does. I have a pretty good understanding of the things he wants to do.

If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.

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