Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.

You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?

Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.

Journalism should be truthful and entertaining. You know, with news and important facts you can entertain people too. Have a little humor. Life isn't all that deadly all the time, but while you're having fun, tell the truth. If every word of a column is deadly serious, I can't read it. It makes me throw up.

I always react to news immediately. That's my business.

Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.