The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.

If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.

His doctors said he was, in many ways, the most remarkable patient they'd ever seen. His bravery, so stark and real, that even those used to seeing people in dire circumstances were moved by his example.

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention.

I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business.

When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit.