Sunday, January 11, 2015

January 11, 2015

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...



Alexander Hamilton (1757 – 1804):
“Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.”




Bernard DeVoto (1897 – 1955):
“One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.”




Adoption of the Designated Hitter
"When teams decide to get rid of unwanted players, they are designated for assignment. Now it's time to designate the DH. Assign it to baseball's scrap heap - a bad idea whose time is over." - Hal Bock of the Associated Press

and
"The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws." - Rick Wise (1974)

and

"I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter." - Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) in Bull Durham (1988)