This is a great baseball town. I'm 21, so to see a place sold out with everybody into it is unbelievable and fun.

I felt really good. Everything was on. I was throwing strikes. I was putting the ball where I wanted to put it. It was a real good day for me today. I wasn't actually nervous at all.

I learned that I should have known better than to do that. You can't go out and try to blow the fastball by these guys. If you're just going to throw fastballs at them, then they're gonna hit it out.

I'm really pumped. I'm going to jump on the phone right now and call my mom and tell her I had a great start.

No. I was trying to work faster than I usually do. My pace was out of whack.

It was a big problem. But it's all right. I could only get 20. That's all I'm going to get.

That's something I'm probably going to go to sleep with tonight - realizing I'm a lot better pitcher than that, and I know a lot better than to throw a 3-0 fastball up in the zone and let him swing freely. If I could do it right now, I'd throw it low and away, and not care if I walked him. There were two out.

It's my softer side. I go out there and relax. I'm a big fisherman. I love to fish ... in the Pacific Ocean, for tuna and rockfish.

It's fun, man. It's going to be fun. It's fun right now.

There's a lot of people walking around with Tigers stuff on. Lots of them.