"It only took 21 runs and five years for me to get a win here," Pettitte joked later.

"We're trying to figure out what's the legal effect of what he did yesterday," the Mayor joked with reporters later in the day.

He later joked about how it felt good to finally play a fourth quarter.

She later joked about their having met the future president for the first time while he was in his pajamas.

"My approach was to hire her and then leave the room," he joked later.

Sullivan would later joke that "it took an over thirty person news staff to replace me".

A little diversion, to be joked about with friends later?

"I was ready to go into the lead when they called me in," he later joked.

Murray, who was to joke about it later, answered that he would keep on racing.