Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

I'm not sure I can think of any scenario more enjoyable than making 55,000 people from New York shut up.

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong.

I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.

Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.