I love the slider. I'll throw it anytime. It helps the curve. The last five feet, it dives toward the left-handed hitter's box. It's a pitch that looks like a fastball coming in. It's a pitch I throw when I need a ground ball with a man on base.

I don't sit around and read papers about myself. If I see myself on TV, if I don't like it, I change the channel.

A lot of times, when young guys come up, you think you don't have to work as hard because the talent is going to get you as far as you need to go. But as you get older, it's not that way. An injury is really a wake-up call and a slap in the face that maybe you were slacking a bit, and don't let it happen again.

At home, when I'm not pitching, I'll sit and sign autographs for the kids. I've always done that and I'll continue to do it. That's part of the job.

The National League is baseball to me.

I'm just a normal kid who lives to play baseball. I'm living my dream.

Good timing for them, bad timing for us.

He said everything looked good in there, he did what he had to do and cleaned up what he had to clean up. I think everything else looked good and I should recover fine.

I haven't thrown a pitch yet. What's there to talk about?

I heard a lot of can you be fans out there. They have been following us all year. It was great to here them again tonight.