I have been around a lot of different personalities ? Walter Alston, Leo Durocher, Tommy Lasorda. I'd put Gene ahead of everybody in terms of knowing the game.

I have been around a lot of different personalities - Walter Alston, Leo Durocher, Tommy Lasorda. I'd put Gene ahead of everybody in terms of knowing the game.

Whatever team they are going to bring they are playing together longer than some of the teams here. It looks to me that the Cuban team may have more cohesion. And they always have pitching. In a short series like that anything can happen.

Don't put this in the paper ... no, wait, go ahead and put it in. Gene Upshaw is a piece of (expletive). Too many guys in the league just accept whatever Gene says. I don't know why no one has called this guy out.

I don't believe in a biological apocalypse, but I think there is stormy biological weather ahead as the human population continues to grow.

Lo! with a little rod
I did but touch the honey of romance —
And must I lose a soul's inheritance?