On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take the issue too seriously, they'll look at you like you're crazy. So that's a really tough issue, whether we're doing more harm than good by paying so much attention to a few cases that honestly don't normally intersect with our lives.

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.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment. It's an interesting phenomena and I tried to put it in perspective and tried to think through a few of the real questions that this sometimes unseemly business raises.

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.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.