The vicious cycle that is bringing down European states is not going to hit us [the USA], at least not for a while, at the level of the federal government. The same cannot be said of state and local governments.

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for this crisis: they really did this.

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?