I’m going to go 50-50 next year. I’m telling you, y’all created a monster. I’m about to get back in the weight room super tough so I can be as strong as I was last year. … Forty-forty is tough, so 50-50 will be even tougher, but anything can happen. I have to set my limits high so I can try to get to them as much as I can. I’m going to try for 50-50, which has never been done. I’m serious. If I don’t [get there], it means I let y’all down and lied to you, and I don’t like being a liar. I know y’all are over there thinking I’m crazy, but hey, I’m trying to take it to another level.

– Matt Kemp.

Awesome. I’m not sure I’ve mentioned it in this space, but Kemp’s one of my favorite players in the league. I was pretty disappointed to hear about his contract extension because it dashed my dreams of the Mets’ signing him next offseason, even if I knew how unlikely that was to begin with. The absurd terms of the deal made it a little more palatable, but still. Man is Matt Kemp sweet.

Via Big League Stew.