I’m optimistic. But I’ve always been optimistic.

We’re certainly not close to making any decisions about hiring of permanent replacements.

The talent is there, but the players must be reminded that success is only one per cent inspiration and 99 per scent perspiration.

The guys want to work, but it has to be something that’s fair. The profitability in baseball is so huge, umpires are affordable.

As the operation stabilizes, we’ll pull them back out again.

Productivity suffered as a result of that.

We welcome the support of our big league brothers. It means the world to us that they want to stand with us and help us in our fight.

Our operations are running particularly well.

We look forward to sitting back at the table with minor league baseball.

Their offers are insignificant to our membership. They want most of the increases later in the contract.

Performance has returned into the normal spectrum and we’re comfortable where we sit right now.

It’s not exactly a livable amount of money. It’s frustrating because we’re not asking for the world. We’re asking to treat us equally as we go year-to-year and make it so that your most qualified...

When you put your heart and soul into something for 10, 15 years, it’s a career. You do it in the hopes you can be fairly evaluated and make it to the major leagues.

There’s not a lot out there that’s going to allow prices to fall.

We love the game. We sweat and bleed out there to produce a product the fans love. It is unfortunate it has gotten to this point.

Everything we are doing we are doing for today. I wouldn’t be surprised if we named a captain just to try and win the World Cup. I would name a captain for the next five...

We just haven’t decided, and we don’t have a timeline to do that.

Bookings are essentially on track with where we would expect them to be.

But he was the captain and once you are on the cricket field you must give support to the captain.

We will continue to send that work outside. As for the long term, I think that does depend on what the go-forward plan is from here.

It was definitely a case of working with the dates that we have available. We are confident that the time frame that we have set forth for the tournament is one that will cause minimal...

We’ll never, ever compromise safety. We never have.

Positive tests are black eyes for everybody.

We’re very confident with where we sit right now.

Umpires made more seven years ago than they do now. Baseball has had tremendous growth and the pressure on officiating to be next to super human is very evident.

This England attack doesn’t hurt as many batsmen as we used to, but they are hostile and they deserve to win the Ashes.

Like all the other territories, Jamaica is well behind in its preparation and there is a lot of work to be done.

Our replacement technicians are highly trained and experienced mechanics.

Any individual who touches a Northwest aircraft will be fully trained in the Northwest maintenance program. Some were furloughed from other airlines. Some are from vendors that already work on Northwest equipment. … We recruited...