"There is always something," he said in a conference call last week.

"I don't anticipate any problems from now to spring training," he said in a conference call.

"I'm a father first and a baseball player second," he said in a conference call.

"Our negotiations are over," he said in a conference call.

"That's not my nature," he said in a conference call yesterday.

"We can see the light at the end of the tunnel," Brown said in a conference call.

"We are going to double guys, certainly," he said Wednesday in a conference call.

"The chance of me getting back to this point was a long shot," Law said in a conference call.

"They have things to do, ways to treat people," he said in a conference call tonight.

"You're never comfortable with a situation like this," he said in a conference call.