So every dollar of income that I have that is potentially taxed away is a dollar I can't put in my company to create a job. My entire company is around job creation.
I had the perfect job for a gamer. From February to October, I'd get up at 7 in the morning with nothing to do but play games until I had to be at the park around 1 or 2 o'clock. When I got back after the game, I played until 3 or 4 in the morning.
On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.
I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.
You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures.
I'm a very routine-oriented guy.
Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.
A lot of my theories were not applicable as a closer
I don't pitch for contracts.
I tell people all the time that without the fans, I've got nothing.
