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I don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.

Vin Scully

When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.
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Crawl Myself Old Small
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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Drink Illumination Statistics Support
I think when I first started, I tried to make believe I was in the ballpark, sitting next to somebody and just talking. And if you go to a ballgame, and you sit there, you’re not going to talk pitches for three hours.
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Believe Myself Pitch Start Talk Thinking
It’s a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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Generation Past Unity Wonderful
Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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Feeling Goodness Lose Winning Worst
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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Effect Growth People
I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it’s making noise.
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Hope Myself Noise Play Quick Try Whole World
If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That’s the kind of thing that I love to do.
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Love Myself Player Story Work
The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.
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Audience Crowd Intoxication Music Roar Sweet
Thank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me.
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Adventure God Love Thankful Yourself
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
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Audience Crowd Myself Roar Stop Trademark
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.
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Game Hate Lonely Love Myself Realistic Road
In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you’re no longer a fan. I don’t root for the Dodgers, really. I just try to do the game as best I can. And the winning and the losing will take care of itself.
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Care Game Honesty Myself Professional
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
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Baseball Fever Guess Myself Sports
It’s a great time of the year. If you can stand it.
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Greatness Stand Time Yourself
Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
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Hard Time Try Yourself

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