I think the most important thing in baseball is to go up there and being able to concentrate every single at bat. I know before I started TM that I might be able to concentrate one or two times at the plate and I’d get one or two hits, and I’d say, oh well, I got my two hits. But now I have a tendency I concentrate almost every single time up there and I can really feel the concentration more since I’ve been TMing. Because like I said I don’t have any other worries on my mind; everything, I don’t know, everything is smooth and easy and it comes really naturally to me now. To play the game I think you have to be relaxed and I think through TM it’s really relaxed me and I can out there and, as I said before, I don’t have a care in the world. Whereas before I’d be thinking about I’ve got a bill to pay at home and what am I going to do and I’m trying to catch a ground ball, or trying to baseball. It’s hard enough trying to play the game when your mind is carefree, but I think TM has really helped me in that aspect. I felt that last year I was very strong at the end of the year and I feel that Transcendental Meditation had a lot to do with this. I didn’t let my emotions get carried away on the field. If I have a bad night I can go home and TM and completely forget about the previous day’s action and start all over the next day and I think that really has had a great effect on me. One question that often comes up i oes this mean that you are less aggressive? People say that if you are real relaxed and you are a baseball player then you are not aggressive. I feel that TM has made me more aggressive but I’m doing it in a more relaxed manner. When things get tight in situations with the bases loaded and all the infielders, you know, you don't want the ball hit to you because you might make an error, but I feel that I want the ball hit to me. I feel that I’m so confident that I can catch the ball and so relaxed that if the ball is hit to me then I’m going to make the play. I think through TM it has made me a more relaxed person and I’m really at ease out there. To me TM just makes the day unbelievably super. I wake up some mornings really feeling bad and I TM for 20 minutes and I get a whole new side of the picture. I like Transcendental Meditation because it’s brought me a little bit of something that you call maybe inner peace, restfulness, maybe a little bit more awareness about who I am or what I do. And it’s also brought me a lot more perspective about the way things are. I think it’s something that is physiologically good for you. It’s something that can be very helpful to anyone who lives any kind of pressured life at all. Any type of stressful situations that arise I think are much more easily coped with through Transcendental Meditation. In baseball you can kind of go through, play your games; you can do well and you can let your whole life be surrounded about the winning or losing of ballgames and a lot of the time you can lose sight of how important it is to be at home with your family and how important it is to follow through on your love for your family and I think that in meditation I’ve been able to enjoy my relationship with my family so much more. Because my thoughts are so much clearer on how I really feel about them. Maybe they were cloudier before but I feel now that through meditation I can express my thoughts about my family, about my wife, about my child and about our life together. After TMing because of the clearness that I would have in my own mind about what I wanted to do when I went out on the field, it would make me more positive in my approach to pitching and being more positive made me more aggressive and being more aggressive, I think, has made me a better pitcher. I think I’ve been able to focus much better. By that I mean you know there’s a ball that a pitcher throws and the sooner you pick up that ball as it’s released from his hand and identify the spin on that ball which will determine if it’s a straight ball a fast ball a slider or a curve, the better opportunity you are going to have to hit it. Well, I think that through the mental clarity that exists through Transcendental Meditation I’ve been able to focus on that much quicker and maintain that focus. I’ve been meditating regularly and I know it’s been helping me in that way. I’ve found myself maybe not as anxious and maybe not as pressure filled as maybe I used to be and I think I’ve performed a little better in some of the situations especially at bat. I think of catching in the same way; instead of letting the pressure of maybe a ninth inning rally where we are sitting on a one run lead and the people are all excited and the stands are full of emotion. I think that sometimes instead of letting that pressure get to you, your mind, because of the relaxation and removal of stress that Transcendental Meditation has helped relieve me of, I think I found myself concentrating on the ballgame right here and now and this situation rather than worrying about the whole pressure of the situation that the ballgame brings out. I like TM because it helps me relax. It now helps me to do things that I have never done before on a massive level to do so many various types of things. I like TM because I’m refreshed where before I wasn’t, especially in the late evenings. A lot of times I would wake up in the morning I had nothing to look forward to but a tired body to carry me through a strenuous day. But now like I’ve told so many of my friends I can’t tell them what is good for them, nor can I tell anyone else. But I think if anyone is interested in keeping their heads screwed on properly, being able to maintain sanity, the type of person that has a lot to do with a lot of things and wants to able to enjoy and unwind and relax, then I think it’s worth whatever to get into it just to check it out. If nothing else to find Transcendental Meditation representatives throughout the country and throw any and every question at them as I did. I’m a very sceptical person and I’m sure you realise some of the questions that I asked him and they were the type of answers that I was looking for. I was assured it was what I wanted. I have nothing to say but plusses for it. If there were some minuses or things that I didn’t appreciate or felt that I was misled, then I would have to be honest no matter who I’m dealing with and tell the viewers whatever I’m involved in. It’s good for me and it has been good for me. If another guy says do you like it and I say yes. He says why,I say it gives me more energy and helps me think more clearly about a lot of things. In this respect things are good. I don’t think that there’s a day now that I don’t wake up in the morning looking forward to TMing to get the day started. It might be the key to everything. We need something to bring this country back together, for people to look at each other and say hello and really mean it. To shake a hand and really appreciate the handshake. To get into each other; a lot of people want to talk but no one wants to listen. By having your head on tight and it’s fairly relaxed, you find time that you want to listen to what people say. I like Transcendental Meditation because it’s made me the person that I’ve dreamed that I want to be but I could never live up to it and I’d like to be a very good person off the field as well as on the field, and I think that through Transcendental Meditation that I will accomplish it.