had not seen this before... :)

Of course, Cain remains grounded through it all. We're in good position, he said. There's a lot of baseball left, he said. We've been lucky, he said. He wants to stay ahead in the count, he said. Simple. Real. Tangible. The questions in the postgame conference were about the intangible -- Cain's place in history and whether or not he has ever pitched this well and all that sort of thing. He shrugged it off. At one point someone asked him if he would come up with a nickname for himself. "We don't nickname ourselves," he said.

And as he talked, I was reminded of my favorite Matt Cain answer of the postseason. It was on Wednesday, and the talk was about nerves, and the question was this: "How do you sleep the night before a start in the World Series?"

And Matt Cain's answer was this: "Close your eyes."