Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.

Thank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me.

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.

The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.

I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.