They're sterilizing a very personal, powerful part of that ceremony where Gunny connects with the veterans.
What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.
You know who I'd like to open for? This will be a surprise, but I'll tell you who Iron Maiden.
I want people to look back at my career and say, 'That guy never backed down from anyone.'
I distributed my wealth among my children and set aside a portion for endowment to run charity projects.
Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.
My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.
Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.
I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.
Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.
I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.
I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.
I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.
The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.
We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.
We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.
Even in this day and age, if you're not married, there are people who are like, 'Awww! Don't worry, it'll happen for you someday.'