The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.
Michael LewisI'd say part of the appeal of Trump is that he's presenting himself as a totally certain, infallible person.
Michael LewisThere was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't?
Michael LewisIn their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.
Michael Lewis