his quote about garvey and "the nose" are also hilarious
"There are a "few" good players today-you can count em on the fingers of one hand. But generally they're just out there going through the motions, just playing for the money."
~ Joe Sewell - 1980
"He reminds me of a right-handed Roger Moret. He has that long and lean frame but good speed on his fastball and sporadic command."
~ Jim Rice on Zach Greinke
"Every morning when I wake up I always remember dreams, and I always have," James said. "Seven days out of 10, I remember a dream about baseball. Baseball is central to how my view of the world is organized, and I tend — to my detriment — to see the rest of the world as an extension of the principles that I look for in the study of baseball."
~ Bill James
"And this one belongs to the Reds!" I could sit and listen to that all summer long.
Danny Serafini (03-20-2020),mth123 (03-20-2020),Norm Chortleton (03-21-2020),Phoenix2 (03-20-2020)
Referring to the Yankees' dysfunctional atmosphere:
"They don't think it be like it is, but it do."
-Oscar Gamble
"I can make all the stadiums rock."
-Air Supply
Norm Chortleton (03-21-2020),OhioRiverBarge (03-20-2020)
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." -- Satchel Paige
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
"There is one word in America that says it all, and that word is, ‘You never know.’”
- Joaquin Andujar
mickey rivers said this about reggie jackson
you have the first name of a white guy, the middle name of a spanish guy and the last name of a black guy ,now wonder your all ------ ed up
"He was really Boot-scootin' it down the line" - Chris Welsch
redsrule2500
Go Reds!
“I’m a normal guy blessed with the ability to hit a baseball.” - Sean Casey
"Bench me or trade me"
-Chico Ruiz
mth123 (03-20-2020),Ron Madden (03-20-2020),texasdave (03-20-2020)
"He don't smoke, he don't drink and he still can't hit .250"
~ Casey Stengel on Bobby Richardson
"When I came up to the majors at 23, I was the All-American boy. I didn't drink, I didn't smoke, I didn't chase girls. I didn't stay out late at night. I was a health food addict. I was with the Yankees one week and we were in Washington D.C., and I got a call from one of the guys at 3:00 AM to come up on the roof of the hotel "to get drunk and look in the windows at women." That's when I realized wasn't in shape for the big leagues.
~ Jim Bouton
RichRed (03-21-2020)
I know there is no crying in baseball per Jimmy, but if anyone like me played catch with their dad and you’ve lost him then you can’t get through that scene/quote from Field of Dreams without a tear.
Just an editorial, but that and Dance with Wolves are on only movies where I could stand Costner for 2+ hours.
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