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

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

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

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 people can survive.

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 conflict with the other activities happening in the region.

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

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 from a rather large pool the best we could get. They're certainly not off the street.

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

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

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