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I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.

Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.

You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.

I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.

I learned to bet the Red Sox, the Celtics, Suffolk Downs. I thought it was a glorious life - pull up to the doughnut shop, spread out, and plan your day.