Baseball's poetic and lyrical celebrants are fond of pointing out that baseball is the only major team sport without a clock. What these people don't understand is that, until about 1945, baseball did have a clock. It was called the sun."

"I do not like artificial turf. I like the game that artificial turf creates."

"When you read Bill James, you notice there is a more abstract truth out there. Baseball is more than just an ability to get to the ball in the hole and throw a guy out. There is a bigger puzzle." - Theo Epstein