Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
I was a ball guy. I played basketball, baseball, football. I excelled in football the most. I played running back, wide receiver, safety, kick returner, punt returner.
I don't see any baseball expansion right now. If it were up to me, I would contract two teams. But I certainly don't think expansion on the horizon.
Remember when John Roberts was seeking confirmation of the Supreme Court, and he said judges should be just like umpires, just calling balls and strikes? Well, turnabout is fair play. What baseball needs behind the plate are umpires like those judges who are called strict constructionists, which means you follow subtle law to the letter.
The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.
I came of baseball age (isn't it always around first grade?) in the last sputtering years of the A's Philadelphia tenancy. I probably plighted my fated troth in 1949, when the A's fluked into a winning season and introduced a pintsize southpaw named Bobby Shantz.
When push comes to shove, baseball is one of my favorite things in the world.
I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
Just flush it if something bad happens. That's the way I was raised to play baseball.
I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.
I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.
I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.
Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.