Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.
I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.
Any of us are capable of doing things we’re not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Anyone can become a drug addict if you let yourself do it and, once you become a drug addict, you’ll do whatever you have to to get the drugs. Absolutely, anybody can do it.
Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown – defense, base running, clutch hitting – his performance still would not match Mantle’s.
Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.
You can’t ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.