Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become

as a companion to the distraught, sort of a psychiatric nurse, just saying: 'You're OK. They're wrong.'

Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.

Look at him and you'd think he's 16. Talk to him and you think he's 26. Talk baseball with him, and you'd think he's 36.

I like both sports. It depends on the season. We had a good football season, and the baseball team is playing exceptional.

[So big games in baseball or football? Which are more compelling?] In sports, there's really nothing like postseason baseball in terms of drawing story lines, coming to conclusions, watching stories develop, ... In the Yankees-Red Sox series, Games 4 and 5 were two of the most thrilling games you'd want to see, and when you have a buildup like that, people are going to be excited to see Games 6 and 7. In football, the games can be just as thrilling, but they stand on their own. A regular-season game in the NFL has almost a playoff feel some weeks.