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That day ALWAYS reminds me of being 5 or 6 years old again and the folks waking me up on Christmas morning! Darn it is FINALY here! Baseball is back!......Except that pitchers and catchers report ‘Christmas morning’ day last over 6 months! I bet you might have the same feelings.

I bet you forgot how foolish it is to bet on a sure thing. ;)

Do you see them white lines? They are there to hit the ball on. And them fellas in the middle are called fielders.---Casey Stengel, sending up a pinch hitter for the 1962 Mets, Jim Marshall. (P.S. Marshall promptly whacked a double . . . right down the right field line)
We try every way we can do to kill this game but for some reason nothing nobody does never hurts it.---Sparky Anderson.
The only problem with baseball is that, by the time you learn to play the game right, you can't play anymore.---Frank Howard.
It don't matter if you're ugly in this racket. All you have to do is hit the ball. And I never saw anybody hit one with his face.---Yogi Berra.
The World Series comes four times as often as the Iowa caucuses. What a wonderful country America is.---George F. Will.
The umpire doesn't say, "Work ball." I asked to be a ballplayer.---Willie Stargell.
Do you know what those Kamikaze pilots were screaming when they flew down the smokestacks? Not "Knute Rockne" or "Bronko Nagurski" but "Babe Ruth!"---Bo Belinsky.
The game is quintessentially American . . . in the way it tells us that much as you travel and far as you go, out to the green frontier, the purpose is to get home, back to where the others are, the pioneer ever striving to come back to the common place.---A. Bartlett Giamatti.
You've gotta let it grow up with you.---Babe Ruth.
Baseball is a dull game only to dull minds.---Red Smith.
That guy pitched the greatest game in baseball history and he still couldn't beat me, so I must be the greatest pitcher of all time!---Lew Burdette, bucking for a raise, the winter after he went the distance to win when Harvey Haddix of the Pirates lost his perfect game in the thirteenth inning. (P.S. Burdette got his laugh . . . and his raise.)
In baseball, there's just one word---you never know.---Joaquin Andujar.
An old man once said that if he could get through March, he usually found he lived 'til the end of the year. Old man, wherever you are: We made it.---George F. Will, spring training 1983.
@$%#&%$#@$%!!!!!---Ted Williams.