It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.

A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.

Where do you want it?

In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore.

If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.

It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.