If he feels he can play then that's great. If he can't, then hopefully he'll be a part of this team in some capacity.

He threw the ball well, he threw some nasty pitches.

In Winnipeg, we were probably 100-1 underdogs. Now? Oh, we're probably facing the same odds.

I know for a fact we don't have the depth that some of the other countries have. But we do have a lot of heart.

I'm very proud to be the manager of Canada. Every time they give me the opportunity to manage, I will.

I know you are not supposed to look too far ahead, but you have to in a tournament like this.

I'm going to have to talk to Greg (Hamilton, Canada's G.M.) and we'll have to come up with some other options for that third catcher. But whoever we come up with, the fact is they were all lower on the depth chart than Russ.

Any time you can control your own fate and don't ... well it's not good. We didn't beat ourselves.

Not really. Managers have tendencies, but you basically have to look at your personnel, what they're capable of doing or not doing and play the game by the book, what you would expect out of each individual, not so much out of their manager.

It will be fun to oppose Buck. I feel there's probably more pressure on him than there is me, because the United States are expected to win and win the whole thing. We're just the sleepers and hopefully we'll go in and quietly beat them.