I wasn’t treated great by any means, but the fans treated me fair and the press treated me fair. I was trying to explain that to Joe. Of course, they won the first year (1996...

You have to laugh about things. Knowing full well, they are going to be a little nervous. You just have to keep talking to them and making them know this is the same old game.

It’s old-timer’s weekend. I’ll probably see him then.

He’s got great hands and good feet, and a real good arm.

Brett would try to pull the ball into the right-field seats in New York.

I was one of those guys he’d sit down with and put his arm around. We talked…. Until you messed up a few times. Then it was different.

I was gone, down to Double-A. Not even Triple-A. You just kind of learned real quick from dealing with him that he wants to win really bad. If you’re one of the guys he thinks...