"Everything progresses from bottom to top by reaching a consensus at each level," he said, "and outsiders are not allowed into the consensus-forming group.
Manager Terry Collins said that if everything progresses as expected, Santana could potentially start a major league game before the end of the season.
I have no doubt, though, that he's thinking about a future run, which would be in six years, in 2018, assuming everything progresses in the direction it's moving now.
Since the birth of rap music, artists have written songs about pretty much everything: progress, struggle, success, failure, societal ills and the responsibility of hip-hop, even an "extraterrestrial time-traveling gynecologist and surgeon from the planet Jupiter".
Don't immediately flirt with him the moment you text him, pretend that he's another girl that you just met and want to be friends with, and after a while flirt a little, and as everything progresses, flirt some more.
Despite everything, Woodward progressed through the ranks at Crewe and made his first-team debut a year later.
"But the way everything has progressed so much now, it should really be seen as an art form," he said, referring to the rise in popularity of both D.J. superstars and the genre of electronic dance music, as well as the rapid technological advancements of recording equipment and computer software.
I had a fantastic pre-season and everything has progressed really well with the trips to Port Elizabeth and Dubai," he said.
