Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record

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

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.

There's something bad in everything good and something good in everything bad.

If you're the kind of kid who thinks that all that's important in life is making money, Wall Street is probably still the place to go, especially now that Trump's elected.

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