"Well, my favorite players are the players on the two New York teams. And I have a daughter who's a professional athlete part-time, hopefully a student the other half of the time, and she's out of town. She'll be with me at the Yankees game. Not that she doesn't love the Mets, but she just couldn't arrange to be here today."
"But she once told me years ago, she said, 'You know, whether it's a good game or a bad game, whether they're playing well or playing poorly, they are trying their best, and you owe it to them to stay til the end.' And I think the only time we didn't was either at a Mets or a Yankees game. It was 1 in the morning, it was still going on, and she started shivering. And I said, 'George, I don't care what you say, we're outta here.'"
"But I plan to stay til the end of the game. Hopefully it's an exciting, high-scoring game, which is the kind of games that I like, with the New York team - in this case the Mets - winning."
"And I think, you know, not everybody stays til the end, but I have. Whether it's the Rangers or the Knicks or the Mets or the Yankees, or I suppose the Jets and the Giants, the few games I've been to, I stay 'til the end of the game or duck out 30 seconds earlier to beat the crowd, maybe."
"But short of that, it's going to be a good game, and I think this is going to be a great year for both teams. They're both exciting. They have new players and they have new stadiums to play in, and these stadiums are going to be wonderful for New York, and the teams are great. They build an esprit de corps here and they give people something to argue about."
"I saw the other day, the paper today, I guess it was that President Obama's minister has strong views about the Yankees. I happen to disagree with him. I don't know what my rabbi thinks about the Yankees, but hopefully I can't imagine that he'd hate the Yankees. Whether he's a Yankee or Met fan or both, I don't know, but he's certainly counseled a parishioner - namely me - to be both. All the best."
- Our Democrat - turned Republican - turned Independent - turned Republican again Mayor, Michael Bloomberg as quoted by Adam Lisberg (via Liz)
