Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.
Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements.
There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
That's the remarkable thing about baseball. The game has a way of having you scratch your head one minute and drive you crazy, and then the next, you're entertained beyond your wildest hopes. That's why it's the best game.
Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
Like a lot of kids, you kind of think baseball's boring - that's the perception.
Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.
We're all still kids when it comes to baseball.
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.