the whole month doing that, he hit nine home runs that month. I always told somebody, if your kid believes he has to chop off a chicken's head to hit, if he believes that's what makes him hit, then by God, chop one off every day. He for some reason believed me throwing batting practice to him was helpful for him. If he believed it was helpful for him, it was helpful." During season in StL? "Two years ago, last year I didn't do it any, because Tony didn't want me involved because he was wanting Mark (McGwire) to get this kind of credit or whatever. And obviously Colby had a hard time, I always told Colby, 'Don't mention my name, let me go ahead and throw to you, man, and go in the newspapers and say Mark McGwire is my man, he's the reason I'm hitting.' But he doesn't know how to lie and I think that's a key to making it in this business, being able to not tell the truth a lot of the time. I was just a BP arm and he felt comfortable with me throwing to him and he felt like it helped him, and if he felt like it helped him, it helped him." Relief for both of you this year? "Oh, John called me early on, it was really funny, I was like star struck. I was in chemistry class, I teach chemistry and physics, I was in chemistry class, my phone