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

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

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.

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

The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

I tried not to write about the O.J. Simpson case too much because so much has already been said about it, but there are a lot of questions left worth asking. However, the case is very useful to illustrate other points. The case is a common reference point because everybody knows the ins and outs of it, more than any other case in this generation, so it becomes useful to reference other points. In itself, there aren't that many questions about it that remain unanswered.

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.