If some guys couldn't stand the heat, then they didn't belong in the major leagues. I don't know anybody who refused the World Series checks I helped them get.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.
Not everybody's a baseball fan.
Don't write us off. Nobody thought we'd win the World Series in 2005, but we did. There are years when we think we're great, and we're bad. I mean, the funny thing about this game is that you can't figure it out.
All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.
There were a lot of players who worked just as hard as I did, and if you didn't, you didn't stay in the big leagues.
It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.
I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.
The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.
What I found is that experience in the World Series made me connect more with the fans.
I think the guys that get to the All-Star Game deserve a lot of credit. They deserve their opportunity to get out there and let the baseball fandom see them.