Those guys are getting all the media hype and it's well-deserved, but we've got some playmakers on our side of the ball as well, ... We're going to blitz. We know it and they know it. It's just a matter of whether they can block it or not.

The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.

Kids want to imitate what it is they see in the media.

There's just a huge change here, because now we have all kinds of TV cameras and media. But they deserve it. I don't think their game has ever been as top-notch as it is this year.

By becoming part of a larger media group, it allows them to leverage wider distribution. For somebody who is a media conglomerate, it's worth more because they can package it with other channels.

There has been (talk on Wall Street) that major media companies are out of favor. I have seen this chicken-little behavior before, ... I have worked in the industry for four decades. At least once a decade they fall out of favor, but each time they emerge stronger than ever. This is for cyclical economic reasons.