“You don't ask the sun why you orbit, you just orbit. You let the gravitational waves of the baseball season pull you in and you surrender yourself, happily.” SportsBaseballSports QuotesBaseball QuotesBaltimore OriolesClubbieGreg LarsonLarsonAberdeen Ironbirds Book:Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir Source: Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir
“See what I mean?' Schmarzo said. 'This life fucks with you, man. I always say it's like scratching lottery tickets: when you have enough guys together playing the lottery--buying scratch-offs--of course one or two of them is gonna win big. It's inevitable. But they win and you're left sitting there scratching away. you throw your money and time away one dollar and one day at a time. But those guys won, right? Maybe I can too. So we keep coming back for more until we realize we're broke and out of time.' He leaned forward, elbows on his knees, and got to work staring another hole through the floor. 'That's what it's like to play single-A baseball.” MemoirBaseball QuotesClubbieGreg LarsonBaseball MemoirAberdeen IronbirdsSchmarzo Book:Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir Source: Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir