Some People Asked Me If I Would

You Sweat Out The Free Agent Thing In November, Then You Make The Trades In December. Then You Struggle To Sign The Guys Left In January, And In February I Get Down To Sewing All The New Numbers On The Uniforms.

The Rules Are Changed Now, There's Not Any Way To Build A Team Today. It's Just How Much Money You Want To Spend. You Could Be The World Champions And Somebody Else Makes A Key Acquisition Or Two And You're Through.

One Time In Spring Training, We Had The Hit-and-run On, And Carl Erskine Threw Me A Curve And I Struck Out Into A Double Play. I Came Back To The Bench And Casey [stengel] Said, 'next Time, Tra-la-la.' I Didn't Know What Tra-la-la Meant, But Next Time Up, I Hit A Line Drive, Right Into A Double Play. When I Sat Down, Casey Came Over And Said, 'like I Told You, Tra-la-la.'

For Being Book Smart, I Thought He (a. Barlett Giamatti) Had A Lot Of Street Smarts, Which Is Tough To Find Sometimes.

We Need Three Kinds Of Pitching: Left-handed, Right-handed And Relief.