We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.
We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion.
I think it's important that we go through everything together as a team.
We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.
We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wanted to come out and be as good as any team in the state, to prove we could hang with any team at any time.
Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.
The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.
All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
We did it together. Not one individual carried this team.
The team pulled together very well, whatever we tried worked.