The finger responded exactly how we were hoping it would.

He's ready when he's ready, I don't want to kill a brain cell thinking about it.

He still doesn't know how much of the plate he can get. That will come and wait till he sees the results. He pitched a D-plus game and look at those results.

If you want to lose 15 pounds, it's not fair to get on the scale the first day of your diet and be discouraged if you didn't lose any weight. If your process and frame of mind are correct, then you'll lose the weight. It's the same thing with Jorge. He's learning the process, and soon he'll see ? we'll all see ? the results.

If you cook a meal for the first time the recipe is going to change.

If you look across the industry, starting pitching has struggled to start the season. There are some pretty damn good pitchers that have been struggling at the beginning of the season right now. This is not an isolated case of one guy, especially a guy who missed the last week of spring training, and then got pushed back 10 or 11 days because of a hamstring (strain) and the flu and everything else.

If you can change speeds and locate, that may be better than throwing 99 or 100.

Any time you've got players with these sorts of personalities, they're bound to lighten up the entire mood. It's great for everybody.

Any time you have a guy like Billy Wagner - the quality of that kind of guy - believe me, Met fans in Shea Stadium, when they see Clark Kent coming out of that phone booth in the ninth inning, that's an exciting thing when he puts that cape on.

Any time you have a lot of time off that's always a concern. It is always a factor, but he's done a lot of throwing (in the bullpen).