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?

When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.

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.

All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories.

Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.

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.

There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.