A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.

The integrity of the game is everything.

Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

The international game has changed for bidding cities.

The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole thats getting deeper and deeper and deeper.

Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it!

Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball.

Courage of the mind far surpasses that of the body.

Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.

Language cares.

Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.

Handshakes and hugs will always trump likes and shares.

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

April is a fun month.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

Sometimes I just... want to see it again. Want to see you awake.