These are some of my random thoughts

These are all original, so now you know what's really going on in my head when I say "Huh, I wasn't paying attention"...

Please note that these were written sequentially since the website started in the Summer of '03....

Quotes

"Welcome to Kyle Field. For those of you visiting for the first time, please do not be alarmed. The press box will move during the Aggie War Hymn."
---A Sign Inside the Kyle Field Press Box

"The only place you can leave Alabama for," Franchione said, "is heaven." A slow smile spread across his face.
---ESPN.com 4/17/03

"There are 85,000 people standing the entire game, waving their 12th Man towels--it's unreal. Kyle Field and the 12th Man lived up to, and exceeded every expectation we had for them. Last Saturday in Aggieland proved without a doubt, one of the most special memories I'll ever have from College Gameday."
---Kirk Herbsteit, ESPN College Gameday

"My god, it was terrorizingly loud!"
---Kansas State strong safety Jarrod Cooper on Kyle Field

"It's just an unbelievable atmosphere. Even though we tried to prepare for the crowd noise, it was above and beyond anything that we could prepare for." "
---former Colorado head coach Gary Barnett

"It (Kyle Field) is one of the most intimidating places to play in the country."
---Florida head coach Urban Meyer

"Texas A&M, which has about 43,400 students, is one of the state's more powerful institutions, noted particularly for the devotion it inspires among its graduates. A&M alumni contribute twice as much money to their alma mater as do University of Texas alumni whose numbers are 33% greater. Graduates of A&M, called Aggies, are known in business circles for a strong work ethic and a highly cultivated sense of loyalty and leadership."
---The Wall Street Journal

"Modern stars are healthier, bigger, and they receive better individual instruction."
---Cincinnati Reds GM, Gabe Paul 1956

"There might be a kid in the stands, or five kids or ten, who had never seen me play or would never see me play again. I burned to be the best there was for them, to leave them with a good memory of me."
---Joe Dimaggio

"Joe, you never heard such cheering."
"Yes I have."
---Dialogue between Marilyn Monroe & Joe Dimaggio after Marilyn had spent their honeymoon with the soldiers in Japan and was trying to justify it to her new husband

"The present crop of big leaguers does not think enough. He feels he has arrived. The result is less intelligent baseball and a bit of laziness."
---Tris Speaker, 1926

"The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money."
---Ty Cobb, 1925

"Joe is entitled to his opinion, and any opinion Joe has, I pay attention to. There's nobody I've met who understands baseball as thoroughly as Joe Morgan.
"But Joe's human. And Joe falls into the old-timer trap. His memories of the old days tend to be rosier than the reality of the old days. I'm forever finding things from Joe's era that weren't as great as he remembers."
---Jon Miller,Confessions of a Baseball Purist

"The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely."
---Ted Williams

"They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English."
---Harry Caray

"Aw, how could he (Jorge Ortega) lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico."
---Harry Caray

"Great players make great coaches, but great coaches make champions."
---Darrel K. Royal

"Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help."
---Hank Aaron

"The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage of weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting."---Hank Aaron

"Don't let laziness be an excuse."
---Lance, from my Physics class

"What is right is not always popular. What is popular is not always right."
---Unknown

"What the hell is Brett Favre doing here?"
---Pat Healy, There's Something About Mary

"Too high."
---Major League

Greg: Don't worry about your little covert op, I'll keep it on the low down.
Denny: Down low.
Greg: No doubt.
---Meet the Parents

"A good friend of mine used to say, 'This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.' Think about that for a while."
---Skip from Bull Durham

Larry: Excuse me, but what the hell's going on out here?
Crash Davis: Well, Nuke's scared because his eyelids are jammed and his old man's here. We need a live... is it a live rooster?
[Jose nods]
Crash Davis: . We need a live rooster to take the curse off Jose's glove and nobody seems to know what to get Millie or Jimmy for their wedding present.
[to the players]
Crash Davis: Is that about right?
[the players nod]
Crash Davis: We're dealing with a lot of shit.
Larry: Okay, well, uh... candlesticks always make a nice gift, and uh, maybe you could find out where she's registered and maybe a place-setting or maybe a silverware pattern. Okay, let's get two! Go get 'em.
---Bull Durham

"I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that."
--George Brett

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."
--Gladiator

"Did you kill a cheetah?"
--E.L., Road Trip

"It's supposed to be a challenge, it's a shortcut! If it were easy it would just be the way."
--Ruben, Road Trip

"I didn't care about the statistics in anything else. I didn't, and don't pay any attention to the statistics of the stock market, the weather, the crime rate, the gross national product, the circulation of magazines, the ebb and flow of literacy among football fans and how many people are going to starve to death before the year 2050 if I don't start adopting them for $3.69 a month; just baseball. Now why is that? It is because baseball statistics, unlike the statistics in any other area, have acquired the powers of language."
---Bill James, 1985 Baseball Abstract
I think Bill and I are maybe the same person, but he's older, wiser, much, much richer and has a job with the Red Sox...