I recall 11 years ago in Pittsburgh, Mark, the ball doing the same thing to me except this one missed you.

I'm glad it did.

I'll tell you, if I was closer to the ball, it had me because it took a nasty hop.

You had a good jump.

Yes, I did.

Skip put it on earlier and I had to go if I get the jump sign and I got a pretty good jump and I thought I had a stolen one once I took off.

And I guess you just get too anxious to hit the ball, don't you?

Right.

I think, you know, I think everybody has a tendency to make hitting too complicated, and I've always felt that hitting should be simplified.

You know, very much.

I went back today and I felt that because I wasn't seeing the ball real good, I was probably lunging.

And so I just worked with Tony Taylor and I stayed back and BP.

And I really saw the ball well by just saying, I'm going to stay back.

What happened?

The other injuries, guys like Michael Morse and Rick Ankele, they open the season on a disabled list, but they'll be playing tonight for Harrisburg at Bowie and can come back after just four or five days.

Well, it's a really good situation for us.

And those guys had some really strange injuries where they were put on rest for two to three weeks at times.

But they both took great VPs with us yesterday, home ballpark and nationals.

They're all excited, and they're going to be back soon.

So that bodes well.

But the exciting thing for me is I like the talent that we got here.

As soon as the other guys come back, you'll have some tough decisions almost right away.

But, at the beginning of his major league career there, he was batting someone with a 280 on-base percentage up in the second spot.

Well, you know, I had a...

When I was in, there, I did the, uh, the computer stuff on a big ol' i- IBM 360, and you had to use keypunch cards to program it.

But I also, uh, had lunch with a guy named Earnshaw Cook who wrote Percentage Baseball and in the early '60s or late '60s, he used perce- uh, on-base percentage with walks and hits.

Uh, last, didn't even use that.

They didn't use the on-base percentage back then and I thought that was great because the optimum lineup was to have on-base guys, high on-base percentage guys batting one and two, and then your run producers, extra base hit guys throughout the lineup.

And the w- worst on-base percentage hit last.

That doesn't seem to be part of your makeup and I wonder if that's something that you always had or it was something that you learned over the course of your life.