But that's why, ... when you say 'baseball' you put the word 'team' right after it. In my opinion, I have the best team in this league - from the owner right down to the bat boys.

That's the way it could be. And we're the guys who hope it's done before (that final series). Right now, there's four teams in the East playing hard, but it's ours to lose and theirs to win. They're the ones chasing us, and that changes things.

[It's one of the great enduring absurdities of baseball: As much as the game is ruled by numbers and endlessly deconstructed by statisticians, most ball clubs don't have any reliable method for determining how far a batted ball has traveled once it leaves the field of play. When they aren't making crude geometric calculations on scratch paper or just purely guessing, team officials rely on survey diagrams that are nearly 20 years old or even send out members of the grounds crew to clamber around the outfield with spools of measuring tape. Accuracy has become such a problem that some teams have stopped trying to estimate distances entirely.] There are so many variables, ... These numbers mean nothing when they're announced.

If nothing else comes out of this hopefully they'll hire a full-time baseball coach, because trying to run a Division II baseball program as a part-time coach is next to impossible if you want to win.

What a great day for Red Sox baseball.

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.