We want to win. The last thing we want to do every August is think about next year. ... We want to win right now.
Opening Day is a fun day. The last thing you want to do is spoil it with a loss. You want to cap it with a win and send everybody home happy. But it doesn't change the fact that we have a good team and we're going to have a great season.
These cuts point to how badly impaired the profitability of the oil industry has been in the last year. It also show what an enormous cash flow pressure these companies are under.
There was an initial run up of several dollars per barrel in crude last week. It's given up nearly all those gains.
We just have to be better defensively, me included. We've slipped the last few weeks, and we don't want to waste a good start by not playing better in the field.
It sounds just like the sumo drumming I heard on ESPN last night.