We had our best spring ever. The World Baseball Classic brings a new dimension. I think it's terrific.

The reason most businesses fail is because they are not properly financed. In today's world, increasingly the first guy to get to critical mass might be the one who wins the game.

The world lost a great baseball fan and great baseball organizer when he died. I guess God needs a baseball organizer in heaven.

If over time the World Baseball Classic works the way we hope it will, I think the next time there is a discussion it will be the IOC asking us to come back.

The organization and baseball were destroyed.

That's why he was here, to surrender himself to longing, to listen to his host recite the anecdotal texts, all the passed-down stories of bonehead plays and swirling brawls, the pitching duels that carried into twilight, stories that Marvin had been collecting for half a century--the deep eros of memory that separates baseball from other sports.