I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.