Miscellaneous

It was one of those things where, if the IT department isn't asking the right questions, then the business side read more

It was one of those things where, if the IT department isn't asking the right questions, then the business side is probably not providing the right answers. Then you've got to back step and redesign things.

That happens. We hit the ball well; that was the most hits we've had in a long time. W e read more

That happens. We hit the ball well; that was the most hits we've had in a long time. W e just didn't do the job on the base paths. Ten hits should mean 10 runs for us.

Our struggling offense finally caught up to us. We couldn't hit in clutch situations. That is their best guy, and read more

Our struggling offense finally caught up to us. We couldn't hit in clutch situations. That is their best guy, and he knows what he is doing and he pitched out of some jams.

I don't understand people who don't like good production. It drives me crazy. We hear all the time from people read more

I don't understand people who don't like good production. It drives me crazy. We hear all the time from people who prefer the way our first records sounded, but if we had more money and time back then, we would have made them sound better. I always want our albums to sound more polished, as they say. Polished is the point for what we do.

We figured it's about time we tried to put on a really good show. It's hard to do that when read more

We figured it's about time we tried to put on a really good show. It's hard to do that when you're going out drinking every night.

Basically, we're letting our fan club pick a third of our set.

Basically, we're letting our fan club pick a third of our set.

As much as I'm not a huge fan of the band Kiss, I totally appreciate what they did in creating read more

As much as I'm not a huge fan of the band Kiss, I totally appreciate what they did in creating a show. They wrote these simple, pretty crappy rock songs, but they created this huge image and this huge show. It was like this iconic thing, and I think that's really cool. I think that's something that we've always really appreciated.

At least in a food-and-sustenance sense, we've always taken what we put into our bodies in a fairly serious light.

At least in a food-and-sustenance sense, we've always taken what we put into our bodies in a fairly serious light.

We don't want to take ourselves too seriously. We're not like this gothic, brooding, sitting-around-with-wine-in-silver-goblets, kind of Hot Topic thing.

We don't want to take ourselves too seriously. We're not like this gothic, brooding, sitting-around-with-wine-in-silver-goblets, kind of Hot Topic thing.

It's flattering, but you start to wonder whether people that are becoming fans of all the bands that have taken read more

It's flattering, but you start to wonder whether people that are becoming fans of all the bands that have taken on that look know where it's coming from. I'm not saying we invented it -- we drew influence from the Damned and the Misfits -- but it wasn't very popular when we started doing it. It's strange, but if you start worrying about stuff like that, it becomes less about being a songwriter and more about trying to control what's going on in some kind of scene.