Re: My yearly baseball Quote...

[moorecg]

Today is my favorite day of the year...the start of Spring Training. Today, all across Florida and Arizona, Pitchers and catchers are beginning to report.

 

 

Every year on this day, I like to send out this quote, it describes the game better than I ever could.

"Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come."

 

 

 

Despite the snow, hope springs eternal. Happy start of spring training.

[soapy]

In before Vance's Annie Savoy quote.

[Sammy Sofa]

I can't wait until next year.

[Garwilly]

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

[Old Style]

So what I got from that quote was that the dude is named Ray.

[Schwarber Fan]

"This s*** don't count. This s*** don't go on the bubble gum card." - Rickey Henderson on spring training

[Four and Twenty]

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

 

Ricketts should hire Yogi as a guidance counselor for Hendry.

[J.R.]

This is a glorious day.

[jersey cubs fan]

Say hello to my little friend.

[Rob]

Is very bad to steal Jobu's rum.

 

Is very bad.

[otis89]

We should have got him a live chicken.

[Cubswin11]

"CHICAGO CUBS BASEBALL IS ON THE AIR"- Pat Hughes

 

On the first ST game they broadcast

[BCVM22]

"CHICAGO CUBS BASEBALL IS ON THE AIR"- Pat Hughes

 

On the first ST game they broadcast

 

=D> Screw the groundhog, Pat Hughes and Ron Santo tell me when winter's over. March 4th, people. Mark your calendars.

[justin23iu]

From Ken Burns' Baseball:

 

"It is played everywhere. In parks and playgrounds and prison yards. In back alleys and farmers' fields. By small children and old men. Raw amateurs and millionaire professionals. It is a leisurely game that demands blinding speed. The only game in which the defense has the ball. It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime, and ending with the hard facts of autumn. It is a haunted game, in which every player is measured against the ghosts of all who have gone before. Most of all, it is about time and timelessness. Speed and grace. Failure and loss. Imperishable hope. And coming home."

[Derwood]

SHUT THE [expletive] UP, DONNIE

[biittner77]

"Get a hit Crash"

"Shut up"

[Fred Hornkohl]

So what I got from that quote was that the dude is named Ray.

 

You're the only on that noticed that Godiva rode a horse. :wink: