In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

You're just too poor to get rich.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

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.

Men feel challenged when a woman is in danger, so those types of stories interest women and they interest men on a level that the crimes against men tend to draw a different visceral reaction. Again, not saying it's right, but they tend to draw a different visceral reaction, which is that the man was out in the world doing men stuff and something happened to him.

It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact.

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.