Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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