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I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.
Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.
There's nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series.
My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.
The Mets are gonna be amazing.
But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant
Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan
I'm not a fan of baseball really.
One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.
Nobody deserves to go to the World Series more than the Chicago Cubs. But they can't go because that would spoil their custom of never going. It is an irreconcilable paradox.
A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.
I love my baseball, and I love my Phillies.
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
To this day, whenever I'm in Milwaukee, which is often, I'm reminded that the people there still haven't gotten over the Braves leaving ... If it helps, they should know the players haven't either.
Me, personally, I was a Mets and Giants fan.
Hello again, everybody ... It's a bee-yoo-tiful day for baseball.
four tumbling, squealing cubs,
My interest is in the Wests Tigers. Nobody can support a team that is all the time on the bottom; that's a waste of time.
Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
I'm a Cub fan, and I sit up here and I know when we have a good team, I know when we're struggling, and it affects me just like any other fan, and I just happen to show it on the radio. I can't help it.
Growing up, I never was a big follower of the Dodgers.
I'm forever a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. Apparently I've picked the worst baseball team in the world.
I'm a baseball freak.
When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.
Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.
The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.
I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.
As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.
All the Padres need is a fly ball in the air.
It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.
Having been aware of the Red Sox since the 1946 World Series, having been growled at by Ted Williams as a young reporter in 1960, having been present at the horror of 1986 and the comeback of 2004, I have seen the highs and lows of some other people's favorite team.
Baseball is a team game.
With the Cubs, they've gone so long without a World Series championship, they wanted to win every day. I want that too, but I didn't feel comfortable.
The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night.
The Rockies and Diamondbacks are both very exciting teams who are fighting for recognition.
What are we out at the park for, except to win?
I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.
We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.
If the Cubs were to win (The World Series) it would be a coronary event for me.
Right from the beginning, I have been a Tiger fan and nothing else," Max Lapides said this summer. "Other men can happily go to ball games wherever they happen to find themselves - not me. My interest is the Tigers. They are the sun, and all the twenty-three other teams are satellites.
The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split.
Fuck baseball...
I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.
What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.
God, I just love baseball.
I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.
I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.
I don't know anything about baseball.
If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?
What more can you ask for than to see a ballgame in spring?
The Cards lead the Dodgers 4-2 after one inning and that one hasn't even started.
It is hard to imagine the World Series being held in the sweet hazy sunshine of late September rather than the sour night air of late October, but that is precisely what has transpired in baseball over the past 50 years, a deterioration from light to darkness.
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I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
I want to be to the White Sox what Derek Jeter is to the Yankees..
There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant.
The Mets just had their first .500-or-better April since July of 1992.
The Dodgers to me are the Yankees of the National League.
I love the game of baseball.
I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.
October baseball is what it's all about.
I love watching American League games, you know what I mean?
I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs.
I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the Reds. I would say I go Cubs usually. That's sort of where I grew up. My older brother was a huge Reds fan.
AT&T Park, chalk it up. This is a great pitcher's park, great weather. It's a great place to pitch. It's all positive and no negative. You can go out and challenge guys. I've got the confidence to attack the strike zone and not nibble so much.
I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.
Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.
I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.
I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated.
Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball.
Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.
I'd like to get out of Philadelphia. I don't care for the people or their attitude, although they don't bother me or my play. But maybe the Phillies can get a couple of broken bats and shower shoes for me.
All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.
Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
I like the Bulls, the Bears - Chicago.
If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.
It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing.
I've enjoyed my time in the American League, the fans of Southern California and other friendships.
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.
I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.
I've always thought of myself as an Expo. I probably had better seasons with the Cubs. The fan base and the bleacher bums at Wrigley Field were so enthusiastic compared to later years with the Expos.
Whatever we do, make sure we clean up baseball.
Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.
The good thing is we got this over in spring training. We played them three or four times and got all the hugs out of the way. Now it's time to go out there and beat them.
You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.
The Mets has come along slow, but fast!
I like the hot dogs at Dodger Stadium.
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.
Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.
Spring Training is a fun time for me.
I'll miss all my teammates. I'll miss Elvis (Andrus) and (Adrian) Beltre, Mitch (Moreland), Matt Harrison and [manager Ron] Washington. To be honest with you, I hope they go 0-162. I got friends, and I love my friends, but I hope they lose their ass.
It's an honor to be playing with these four players and to be a part of their fifth World Series title and my first.
My God ... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?
I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.
The rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.
Have my cubs' is not the first thing a woman wants to hear.
The Rays are a team to be reckoned with. These guys are getting better and better each year.