Spreuken over Dood

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

It's been disruption and pain and death and financial disaster -- you name it -- for a whole bunch of people. It's been horrendous, and it has changed everybody in the city forever, in some ways that they don't even know yet. But to come out here on opening night and see Zephyr Field put back together is a great feeling.

If hope didn't exist, neither would I

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

My heart is racing. I'm shocked that it was a violent death. It's disconcerting.