Pete's confession lacked one major thing in Bud's mind: remorse. I spoke to Bud later, and he told me he got the confession he had expected, but not the expression of genuine remorse he had hoped for.

I'm sure, consistent with his feelings of remorse about this, this was certainly, there was no political agenda in this. There was no political reason to do this. I think this was a matter of an incident that happened because of personal pressures.

It blew my mind. I'm still shocked about this whole thing.

On this point I am of exactly the same mind as Ms Merkel.

When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions - such as merit, such as past, present, and future - our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment.

I think the Baseball Hall of Fame should take a stronger position on a lot of issues,