I'd rather do this all spring. I've been getting easy ground balls. I want some bullets.
Hockey is hot again. February is off to a good start, too. And we haven't even really got into baseball, softball and golf sales yet.
When you go high in the face, your intent is not to knock the ball out. Your intent is to seriously hurt somebody. You're talking about a potentially career-ending neck injury. I've run over a couple of catchers in my time, but I never went that high on one. You go for his glove.
He's a great kid. He has that great mentality that, 'I'm not going to quit.' He has that football mentality. I hated to see him get off to a slow start. I wondered how he would handle it. I thought if anyone could handle it, he could handle it, from that football mentality.
I'm in great shape, back-in-my-football-days shape. I've worked hard to get to this point.