The future's not going to be the past, but it can be better than it would otherwise be. You're not going to redevelop everything, but a sterling project here will spin off a sterling project there, and in 30 years you'll see a vastly different community. It's going to take conversation to have it all make sense when it's done, and conversation is tough. But we're getting better at that.

His attitude, just his presence was lacking early in the year. But he found it and now he's locked in.

I read the paper and it makes me nervous.

I'm over all that sort of stuff and I'm so glad I am. I feel so much better and spring training was so much better this year. I'll try to do the same things I tried last year, just work hard. I have the tools. I just got to try to use them.

I try not to think about all of that and put it behind, but I can't deny this has been a season of major ups and downs for me,

It's easy to get excited and just give them what they want. But you have to remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. We went on the Internet and there are all these stories about people who gave their account information out and then all kinds of money was taken. It's just a shame that there are people out here who would do people that way.

a terrifying prospect to serious foreign policy players.

They had us (stopped) there but we didn't let it affect us.

As good as (Southern Nevada) is, to come in and win in their park, that's a good thing for Derek.

So you can imagine her relief and joy when she was told the good news about being selected for ITV's I'm A Celebrity. It's just the tonic she needs to get her life back on track again.