The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

The incentive for the outsider is to attack the system right up to the moment he is co-opted by it. The incentive for the insider -and this took some getting used to- is to allow yourself to be attacked, and then co-opt your most ferocious attackers, and their best ideas. The effect on the system as a whole is to make it more stable, because everyone winds up working on its behalf.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.

The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.