I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.