If I know it's going over the fence, I am going to start jogging and just get around the bases and get back in the dugout.
You can say baseball's fun, you're in the big leagues, you get to come to a Major League field every day - and, yeah, that's great. I love it.
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
I don't miss being in the dugout - I'll make that clear.
When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it.
I watch the Dodgers every night - no reading anymore - and I dream that I could have hit that home run.
In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.
They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.
I'll get in that habit of throwing the ball over the plate too much. You want to keep it going, get those guys back into the dugout. But it's not a good thing when you're over more than a third of the plate.
I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout.
As a kid, baseball was always my passion.
Renko has just about had it. Pretty soon somebody will come out of the dugout with a fork and get him.
I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.
There's a hard shot to LeMaster, he throws Madlock into the dugout.
I always feel happy for my teammates, but I'm not going to be the one at the top of the dugout yelling.
I remember playing at Old Trafford, and the way to the dugout was always nice. It was never like in other stadiums.
I've played the outfield my whole life. It's like riding a bike.
When I was 12, I was taking batting practice with an aluminum bat at Tiger Stadium. I don't know where it landed exactly, but upper deck somewhere. Yeah, people were surprised.
Baseball is a movable conversation across nine innings. It is eye contact with the person seated next to you in a park where the pitcher is separated from the batter by 60 feet, six inches or in a family room where a 60-inch TV screen hangs on the wall.
The catcher is a groundhog. He's a guy squatting down, digging for the ball in the dirt, and sweating under a pile of uncomfortable protective gear while his knees creak.
All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.
Sometimes, when you don't have spark, someone in the dugout has to create something.
I don't really watch video, but I see the replay; like when I do strike out, and I'm walking back to the dugout, I look up and see if they do show the replay of me swinging and missing.
I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.
