I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.

I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.

Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.