Football is to baseball as blackjack is to bridge. One is the quick jolt. The other the deliberate, slow-paced game of skill, but never was a sport more ideally suited to television than baseball.

I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.

If a scout came up to all of the baseball coaches in the conference and said, 'Here's 100 of the best kids in Missouri,' ... I would probably have to tear that sheet in half. Fifty of them right off the bat academically wouldn't be able to get in.