Chris Bates
Chris Bates
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The fact that everything's increasing reflects the healthier economy.
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The Bay Area is stabilizing as the economy is showing nice, steady growth -- unlike what was happening in the late 1990s.
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It was huge. When they have their backs to the wall and they have to win, you go up 9-0, you feel like you have control of the game. It puts a lot more pressure on them to score runs.
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It was just a great baseball game. Win or lose, obviously you don't want to lose, but you could understand in a game like this. It's very rare we score one run in a baseball game, and it's very rare that they get shut out.
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It's not behaving like the rest of the Riverside County area. The rates of increase are lower than what we're seeing in the rest of Southern California.
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It (the occupancy rate decline) was unusual. It was across the board. We had a 0.2 percent decrease a couple of quarters ago, but (statistically) that was zero. This (the 0.5 percent decline), I think, is statistically significant.
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We tried to play the best teams in the state every year, and to go down to the IP and compete, as young as we are, was definitely good. Now we've got a big week ahead of us this week. Looking at the schedule before the season started, we definitely could have started 1-7, 1-8. And to start 5-0, that's a big lift.
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I've seen an immense improvement in environmental compliance and it's continuing to get better.
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This game was even bigger for us because we didn't play real well (Thursday) night. We had a big lead and we lost it, and typically that doesn't happen around here.
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As long as you stay in the winners' bracket, you're in pretty good shape. You get tons of rest. We've been playing three or four games a week. When you get in the playoffs, as long as you stay in the winners' bracket, you're only playing twice a week.
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San Diego is out of step with the rest of Southern California. It is the worst performer.
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I felt like we swung at a lot of balls and took a lot of strikes. Tonight, he struck out three in the first but after that we made that adjustment, where we swung at the strikes and took the balls, and obviously it made a big difference.
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Newer complexes generally go for higher rents than older ones.
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It's probably not one thing. There are probably a couple of small, different things that are conspiring to make San Diego the underachiever that it is right now.