What is baseball?
Terry Francona Baseball is eight months of hotels, arguments, fights, absolute frustration, plane trips and dirty laundry and when you win, it’s all great and when you lose your family seems like thousands of miles away. Sometimes I wonder why I do it but then I look at alternatives. Nope, I’m where I should be. That’s baseball. Dustin Pedroia You play this game to win. What job can give you that type of rush? You compete and you win and you stay healthy. That’s what it’s all about and that’s why I’m playing for the Red Sox. I go out there as if every game is my last game…and that’s not a bad way of thinking about it. Mike Timlin You play this game since you were two and you play it hard and then you play it harder and then you make it. The ballpark seems like it’s an entire continent and the fans and the fame and you’re like – this is great. Then one day you wake up and that fastball can’t shut down a hitter and your body, your body gets old and you ask yourself – what do I do now? Ev
