25 Quotes by Chris Bates

It's probably not one thing. There are probably a couple of small, different things that are conspiring to make San Diego the underachiever that it is right now.

The Bay Area is stabilizing as the economy is showing nice, steady growth -- unlike what was happening in the late 1990s.

It (the occupancy rate decline) was unusual. It was across the board. We had a 0.2 percent decrease a couple of quarters ago, but (statistically) that was zero. This (the 0.5 percent decline), I think, is statistically significant.

It was huge. When they have their backs to the wall and they have to win, you go up 9-0, you feel like you have control of the game. It puts a lot more pressure on them to score runs.

It was just a great baseball game. Win or lose, obviously you don't want to lose, but you could understand in a game like this. It's very rare we score one run in a baseball game, and it's very rare that they get shut out.

It's not behaving like the rest of the Riverside County area. The rates of increase are lower than what we're seeing in the rest of Southern California.

The market is probably steadily, boringly, going to continue the way that it is.