Quotes by Mike Barnicle - Page 1

I am, if nothing else, an optimist.
Mike Barnicle / Broadcaster
Optimist
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You can have a wedding at Fenway Park.
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Wedding
Park
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New York is about success. Boston is about resentment.
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Boston
Resentment
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Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.
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Baseball
Life And Death
Red
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Philadelphia is a town where even the sidewalks seem to sweat.
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Philadelphia
Sweat
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'American Sniper' is a movie. War is a grim reality and with us still.
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Grim
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Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.
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Government
Incompetence
Indifference
Rebellion
Roots
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At times, Mario Cuomo seemed to have the humility of a Jesuit and the goals of an emperor.
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Emperor
Humility
Mario
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The refurbishing and rebuilding of Fenway Park since 2001 has created a new urban neighborhood in Boston.
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Boston
Neighborhood
Rebuilding
Urban
Park
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The first time I went to Fenway Park was probably 1950. It was the early '50s, and it was my father taking me to the game.
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First Time
Time Me Father
Time Game Father
Park
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Political people give speeches and espouse positions declaring that America is the best and strongest nation in the world.
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Declaring
Strongest
Positions
Speeches
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Reality is self-defined as the mob, any mob, writes its own history, never to be contradicted by the quiet statement of truth.
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Quiet
Mob
Statement
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The New York City police department is more representative of the city it serves than most law firms, university faculties, and media companies.
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Department
New York City
Police
Police Department
University
Companies
Faculties
Representative
Serve
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Fear is hugely contagious. Used skillfully by politicians looking to manipulate voters, it can become toxic and capable of infecting more than just a few.
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Capable
Contagious
Manipulate
Toxic
Voters
Politicians
Hugely
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Clearly, the Iranians are well aware that Teheran would be turned into a field of glass and sand if they ever stepped toward open war with Israel or Saudi Arabia.
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Arabia
Sand
Saudi Arabia
Glass
Iranians
Saudi
Stepped
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The middle-class ladder has rungs that no longer exist for many trying to climb higher. Instead, for too many, in too many places, their chore is simply trying to hang on.
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Higher
Chore
Climb
Exist
Hang
Ladder
Places
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The world is an increasingly dangerous, troubled place. There are nations that seem to be ungovernable. Nations where violence and religious combat are as common as the sunrise.
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Combat
Sunrise
Increasingly
Troubled
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The United States of America, justifiably and proudly, went to war in Afghanistan in early winter of 2001. The United States invaded Iraq on a false premise in the spring of 2003.
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Afghanistan
Spring
United States Of America
Winter
False
Invaded
Premise
Proudly
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In Washington, politicians worry about their 'base.' About polls. About ideology. About raising money. About re-election. They measure their future in two- or six-year increments.
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Ideology
Polls
Base
Increment
Measure
Raising
Re-Election
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Everyone has a smart phone, and everything is recorded. One event spills into another. Conclusions come quickly at the near total expense of consideration of what just actually happened.
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Consideration
Conclusions
Event
Expense
Near
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Baseball is a game that shouts, 'Slow Down' to America. Stop tweeting, texting, blogging, watching cable news, and obsessing about polls, lost planes, and focus-group-driven politicians.
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Baseball
Blogging
News
Planes
Texting
Cable
Politicians
Tweeting
Slow
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It's your glove, your baseball glove. It's got a soul, a memory all its own, and a future that never fades because it has never let go of the grasp the past has on you and so many others.
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Future
Baseball
Fades
Soul
Own
Glove
Got
Grasp
Let Go
Memory
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Very few people live in the same house they move into when they're married or the same neighborhood when they're married. Very few people certainly live in the neighborhood they grew up in.
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Married
Neighborhood
Certainly
Few People
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Sadly, it seems as if there is no longer any real history. Just momentary reactions to events that disappear like sky-writing with items like Twitter, texts, Meerkat, Snapchat, and Instagram.
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Disappear
Instagram
Items
Momentary
Reactions
Snapchat
Twitter
Sadly
Texts
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Cardinal Raymond Burke is a 66-year-old guy who lives in Rome, dresses like Queen Elizabeth, and talks like someone who majored in misogyny at some bogus, backwoods, Bible-banging tent school.
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Dresses
Rome
Cardinal
Elizabeth
Queen
Raymond
Talks
Tent
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Cops, more than firefighters, EMTs or other public safety employees, almost always get the first glance of the human condition at the worst, most lethal moments; nobody calls a cop with good news.
Mike Barnicle / Broadcaster
Cop
Good News
Human Condition
Moments
News
Public Safety
Safety
Worst
Condition
Calls
Employees
Lethal
Firefighters
Glance
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Politicians in Washington work in a small, sheltered world where they lurch from crisis to crisis that they create, nurture and use as ideological triggers in their selfish pursuit of re-election.
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Crisis
Ideological
Nurture
Pursuit
Selfish
Triggers
Re-Election
Sheltered
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We live in a culture where everyone's opinion, view, and assessment of situations and people spill across social media, a lot of it anonymously, much of it shaped by mindless meanness and ignorance.
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Assessment
Ignorance
Meanness
Mindless
Opinion
Social
Social Media
Lot
Across
Much
Anonymously
Everyone
Shaped
Situations
Spill
View
Where
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Most cops are not looking for understanding. They work in a world filled with a sense - real or imagined - of danger lurking around each corner and every hallway. Most cops are merely looking for respect.
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Danger
Filled
Lurking
Cops
Corner
Hallway
Merely
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Sixteen times a year, all thirty-two NFL teams give us what we're looking for: speed, skill, violence, fantasy league orgasms and a final score. No confusion. No doubt. No indecision. A winner and a loser.
Mike Barnicle / Broadcaster
Confusion
Doubt
Fantasy
Indecision
League
Nfl
No Doubt
Score
Sixteen
Speed
Violence
Winner
Final
Skill
Teams
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Race is the San Andreas Fault of our culture as well as our history. Its fissures are forever present and not that far beneath the surface of every day life. To deny that is to risk being labeled delusional.
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Delusional
Deny
Beneath
Labeled
San
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Like most of us, Joe Biden has had moments when he's led the league in mistakes or verbal gaffes. The difference is his were on a public stage where explanations are almost always made out by pundits to be excuses.
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League
Pundits
Explanations
Excuses
Joe
Led
Verbal
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During the course of any normal day, I usually pay more attention to assembling a grocery list than I do to reading movie reviews, although there are a more than a few film critics who bring huge insight to their work.
Mike Barnicle / Broadcaster
Assembling
Critics
Insight
Reviews
Work Day More
Grocery
List
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Charleston, South Carolina, is about a 90-minute drive northwest of Beaufort and Parris Island. It is an old city reborn with new charm and an influx of snowbirds from the North attracted by its ease, comfort and accessibility.
Mike Barnicle / Broadcaster
Accessibility
Carolina
Charleston
Comfort
Ease
Reborn
South Carolina
Drive
Attracted
Island
North
Northwest
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Cops can deprive people of their freedom. They are sworn to serve and protect. They work for us and they belong to, basically, a service industry, laboring in conditions that are sometimes threatening, often dangerous yet interesting.
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Conditions
Threatening
Belong
Cops
Deprive
Sworn
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Unlike other professions - doctor, lawyer, teacher, journalist, sales clerk, stock broker - when a cop makes a bad mistake, it could mean someone is dead. They take home mental baggage unlike anything carried in almost every other job.
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Baggage
Cop
Journalist
Broker
Carried
Clerk
Unlike
Professions
Sales
Stock
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What is forgiveness? An emotion? A coping mechanism? An element of deepest faith? A way for the heart and soul to combat the type of hate, anger, rage and a thirst for revenge that could ultimately consume a person? All of those and more?
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Anger
Faith
Combat
Coping
Emotion
Hate
Heart And Soul
Mechanism
Rage
Revenge
Thirst
Type
Consume
Deepest
Element
Ultimately
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You used to be able to identify Sox fans in Yankee Stadium. They sat, slump-shouldered, with the same panicked expectation nervous motorists have looking in the rearview mirror at the 16-wheeler behind them on Interstate 95 near New Haven.
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Fans
Interstate
Nervous
Rearview Mirror
Sat
Yankee Stadium
Behind
Expectation
Haven
Identify
Near
Panicked
Rearview
Sox
Stadium
Yankee
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America provided things that form the foundation of who we used to be: the prospect and potential of hope, mercy, and freedom for strangers who came carrying not much more than a determination to survive in a big country with a bigger heart.
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Bigger
Determination
Foundation
Mercy
Carrying
Prospect
Provided
Strangers
Survive
To Survive
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If you want proof of what the country is really all about, just walk through the National September 11 Memorial Museum. Here it is, in the faces of the victims, in the stories of bravery, in the souls and memory of the survivors, the next of kin.
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Bravery
Faces
Memorial
Proof
September
Museum
Souls
Survivors
Victims
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I think blogging, by and large, is basically therapy. And I'm sure, and I know, that there are some terrific bloggers and some legitimate bloggers. But I think, by and large, a huge percentage of people who are blogging are doing it for self-therapy.
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Bloggers
Terrific
Therapy
People Doing Know
Legitimate
Percentage
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Baseball is a movable conversation across nine innings. It is eye contact with the person seated next to you in a park where the pitcher is separated from the batter by 60 feet, six inches or in a family room where a 60-inch TV screen hangs on the wall.
Mike Barnicle / Broadcaster
Baseball
Contact
Eye
Eye Contact
Feet
Inches
Nine
Pitcher
Six
Wall
Across
Batter
Innings
Movable
Park
Screen
Separated
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That's one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn't begun to batter optimism.
Mike Barnicle / Broadcaster
Assault
Baseball
Cynicism
Games
Optimism
Summer
Life Great Yourself
Batter
Begun
Gifts
Season
Seemed
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I don't think we treat people very well in the media, both as customers - and I call them customers - of newspapers and magazines, or TV news, and we don't understand that the greatest story that we could tell, each and every day, is the story of the people around us.
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Magazines
Newspapers
Tv News
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We have more tools at hand, literally, to make life easier and more productive than ever. We have Google, Wikipedia, iPads, iPhones, iTunes, YouTube, Netflix, and 600 cable channels. We can shop, pay bills, order food, and get nearly everything delivered, all of it with the touch of a finger on a device in the palm of our hand.
Mike Barnicle / Broadcaster
Bills
Easier
Google
Ipads
Itunes
Tools
Wikipedia
Youtube
Touch
Palm
Nearly
Cable
Channels
Delivered
Device
Finger
Literally
Shop
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