Chris Bates Quotations

Newer complexes generally go for higher rents than older ones.

Getting that runner on and having him thrown out, it would've been easy for them to hang their heads. I'm just proud of our guys. It was a tremendous effort. We've done those types of things all year. And our guys seem to execute when they are called upon.

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.

We talk all the time about how it takes eight games to win the state, but when you put things in perspective, you're really only guaranteed two more games. If you lose two, you're gonna be done.

If it's a seesaw, it's a little bit tilted in favor of renters. If the occupancy trend continues, then people aren't going to be putting rents up. Rents would at least stay stable and possibly decline.

We have to wait another quarter to see if it continues.

The fact that everything's increasing reflects the healthier economy.

Though I hate to call it that, you have sort of a boring market in terms of price changes.

The potential tenants don't have the money to pay more right now.

I've seen an immense improvement in environmental compliance and it's continuing to get better.

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.

A lot of defense agencies thought they were exempt back in the 1980s. But practicing NEPA and caring for the environment has become a way of life now.

They've gone out of their way to take care of the people in the community.

They've got a lot of things going on, and I'm proud of them for coming out and competing against a good Greer team. I wouldn't be surprised if we see those guys (Greer) again on Wednesday.

San Diego is out of step with the rest of Southern California. It is the worst performer.

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.

The Bay Area is stabilizing as the economy is showing nice, steady growth -- unlike what was happening in the late 1990s.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's an interesting contradiction, and it's happening everywhere.

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.

The market is probably steadily, boringly, going to continue the way that it is.