Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.
If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs.
We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.
You sweat out the free agent thing in November, then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January, and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.
I'd rather go fishing for three years.
For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.