Eric Show will be 0 for 10 if that pop fly ever comes down.

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!

Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel.

Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

He slides into second with a stand-up double.

And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.

Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?

There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.

Ozzie Smith just made another play that I've never seen anyone else make before, and I've seen him make it more often than anyone else ever has.

The human currency of praise is Monopoly money. It feels great for a moment to collect, but when the game is over, it's worthless.

Maybe the best things are those that take the most work, you know? Maybe how you get somewhere can be at least as important as where you're going.

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning

That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart.

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.

in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

I love putting on an outfit or a costume and just looking at myself in the mirror. Baggy pants or some real funky shoes and a hat and just feeling the character of it. That's fun to me.

Vengeance has no foresight.

Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.