Also, Mike Cameron's thoughts on playing Opening day:
"I'm grateful, very grateful,'' he said. ``Just to still be able to play on Opening Day, it still takes you back when you were a little kid. Some guys don't sleep well. You get up early in the morning because you're anxious to get over to the park and get your uniform on. I'm always grateful just to be able to walk into a big league clubhouse and see my name on the back of the jersey. I think that's special in itself. It's just as fun for me when I walked in there when I was 22 as it is now when I'm 38.''
Now JD Drew's
"Listen, I've played long enough and I understand that Opening Day is a great day, a lot of fun, the festitivities and a chance for everybody to work into a new season. But, ultimately, it's a very magnified day in the scheme of a long, long season and that's what I kind of reflected on when I talked to him about it.
``I just put the ball in his(francona's) park and let him know that I wasn't the kind of guy who was going to blow up and look at it as a slight, by no means.''
anything to get another off day for jd