It was probably the best baseball experience of my career. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Every day was a new memory, a new career high.

I'm very impressed. I've been wanting to go over to Japan for a long time to play on the All-Star tour. Everybody tells me they usually kick our butts when we go over there. So major league-caliber baseball is played over in Japan, too.

I don't think there's any doubt everybody is looking at us and gunning for us. Baseball is our national pastime. It's always been perceived that Americans play the best baseball.

We can bunt guys over. But we're built on power. That's American baseball.