![]() "A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. "I think about the cosmic snowball theory, he said. All through the sixties I tested everything."Īnother time he put the game in perspective the way you'll never hear from, say, Max Scherzer. One time he was asked about mandatory drug testing and he answered, "I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. ![]() Thompson could throw Major League sliders, he'd have been Bill Lee. Because he was too much of a character for the vapid, empty, douchebaggery of Twitter and TikTok. He might have been the biggest celebrity in America or it might have taken all the mystique away. I can't imagine what he would've done if his playing days took place in a social media age. "I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever," he said. He's also the guy who was mad when Hank Aaron decided to come back for one last season. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world," actually doing it. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. But here's Lee, the man who once said, "Bring back natural grass and nickel beer. It's long been a fashionable cliche to say about guys like Pete Rose or Brett Favre that the love the game so much they'd play for free, while every season they'd sign for the most money they could possibly get. Nobody appreciated the game the way he did. I always play to win when it comes to skin and boneīut sometimes I say things I shouldn't.You just knew they'd have to peel the uniform off of Spaceman, and obviously no one's been able to do it yet. ![]() When I'm standing in the middle of the diamond all alone "You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. "You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church." Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds." Source: Sports Illustrated (April 7, 1980) The left side controls the right side of your body and right controls the left half. "You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. All this makes Boston fans a little crazy and I'm sorry for them." Source: Late Innings (Roger Angell) "There's nothing in the world like the fatalism of the Red Sox fans, which has been bred into them for generations by that little green ballpark, and the wall, and by a team that keeps trying to win by hitting everything out of sight and just out-bombarding everyone else in the league. All through the sixties I tested everything." I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. "The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. "The only rule I got is if you slide, get up." Source: USA Today (October 25, 1989) "The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be." "The designated gerbil (nickname given to Don Zimmer by Spaceman Lee)." They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards." I can get off on a really good helmet throw." Source: The Baseball Card Engagement Book (1990) For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us." "Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore." Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world." Source: Los Angeles Times (February 3, 1977) "I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out." The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. "I think about the cosmic snowball theory. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. "I'm mad at Hank (Aaron) for deciding to play one more season. I'd have Van Gogh'ed him." Source: Five Seasons (Roger Angell) "If it had been me out there, I'd had bitten him his ear off. "Hell, if KY jelly went off the market, the whole California Angels pitching staff would be out of baseball." "Do they leave it (Fenway's Green Monster) there during the game?"
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