Quote of the day
A good umpire is the umpire you don’t even notice. He’s there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don’t even remember his name.
~Ban Johnson

A good umpire is the umpire you don’t even notice. He’s there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don’t even remember his name.
~Ban Johnson

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
~Ted Williams

Baseball’s Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs’ starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.
~Rob Sheffield

I love baseball. I’ll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.
~Steve Earle

Hello again, everybody. It’s a bee-yoo-tiful day for baseball.
~Harry Caray

I’ve always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That’s been my career motto.
~Ichiro Suzuki

You don’t play 162 games without facing some adversity during the course of the year.
~Tom Glavine

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
~Yogi Berra

Bad ballplayers make great managers, not the other way around.
~Casey Stengel

I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn’t realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.
~Nolan Ryan
