“I love Boston. I love Fenway Park. I love Red Sox history. But in no w...” — George Vecsey Quote

“I love Boston. I love Fenway Park. I love Red Sox history. But in no way am I a Red Sox fan.”

“Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.”

“Lots of ballplayers have their own personal music blasted by the sound systems in modern ball parks.”

“The Boys of Summer were heroes in Brooklyn for a full postwar decade partly because the players could not entertain higher offers.”

“It is hard to imagine the World Series being held in the sweet hazy sunshine of late September rather than the sour night air of late October, but that is precisely what has transpired in baseball over the past 50 years, a deterioration from light to darkness.”

“It is no fun lining up in your own building - as the hockey players say - and touching the hands of fellow stubbly louts who have just sent you off to the proverbial cabin on the lake.”

“I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned.”

“The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it is. But it has also become the most effective instrument of mass surveillance and potentially one of the greatest instruments of totalitarianism in the history of the world.”

“Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.”

“I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.”

“Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State.”