There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.
It's a beautiful day for a night game.
Baseball is like this. Have one good year and you can fool them for five more, because for five more years they expect you to have another good one.
There's nothing tough about playing Third. All a guy needs is a strong arm and a strong chest.
I think managing shortened my playing career, but I was a better manager when I was playing, when I could lead like a platoon sergeant in the field rather than as a general sitting back on his duff in a command post.
The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?
Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in vociferous numbers, sustaining themselves with a heavenly ichor that combines loyalty, criticism, cheerfulness, durability, rage, beer and hope, in exquisite proportions.
In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.
If we don't love ourselves, tell me, how can we love somebody else?