It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.
Michael LewisThe 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.
Michael LewisThere are several insights at the heart of the Aโs system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that itโs a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for godโs sake donโt go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.
Michael LewisEverything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .
Michael Lewis