When you're hurt physically, you can recover. When it is mental, you don't know when it is going to show up and you don't know when it is going to stay at home. Mentally, we need guys to show up every day. I don't know if he's ready to do that for the team.

Strikes. He makes guys swing bats. He's not afraid.

We have 20 guys in there. They have been inconsistent, way inconsistent. It's going to kill them.

When we were really struggling, you didn't see guys get two hits in a game. Any time someone got one hit, one walk -- nobody could put it together. Tonight when we were hitting the ball, one guy got three hits, one had two RBIs, one had two hits, all of a sudden you don't need nine guys to get a hit -- just two or three to get a hit at the right time.

Most of these guys have never been in this situation, but I have, and I have to lead them,

Now, we don't have to wait for Thome to hit home runs. Other guys are hitting them for him now.