With Generals Finkelstein and Tomasulo on my back about writing too much and too seriously, I thought I would lighten it up a bit by naming my favorite baseball quotes.

1. Lenn Sakata, after a game winning hit, was asked by a reporter “what were you looking for in that situation.” Answered Sakata, “Something white, coming through.”

2. “I would love to have a guy that always gets the key hit, a pitcher that always makes his best pitch and a manager that can always make the right decision. The problem is getting him to put down his beer, come out of the stands and do those things.”–Danny Murtaugh

3. “Being up all night with a girl never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for that girl that does him in”–Casey Stengel, (not, apparently, speaking to A-Rod about his strip club visit).

4. You know it’s summertime at Candlestick when the fog rolls in, the wind kicks up, and you see the center fielder slicing open a caribou to survive the ninth inning.” –Bob Sarlette.

5. What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.”– Harry Caray. (a big ouch to you Cub fans…)

6. “This team’s idea of a rally is a two-out walk.”–Stump Merrill (sadly I recall this one from my younger days. Ugh.)

7. “I could never play in New York. The first time I came into a game there, I got into the bullpen car and they told me to lock the doors.”–Mike Flanagan

8. Johnny Broaca was in the ninth in a 1-0 game, and walks Cronin on four pitches. Foxx comes up and hits one to dead center in Yankee Stadium 450 feet away, and DiMaggio make a circus catch to preserve the win. He said “Cronin worried me, but I knew I could get Foxx.”

9. “Its a long fly to left field. And there it goes. Ahhh crap.”–Harry Caray, in his usual unbiased manner.

10. Lastly, two on the great city of Cleveland: “I asked the cab driver to show me the sights. He drove me around the block and dropped me back off at my hotel.”–Tim McCarver on the great night life in Cleveland.,

And Ichiro, of all people: “If I ever saw myself saying ‘I’m excited to go to Cleveland’ I’d punch myself in the face because I’d be lying.”