The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.