I've got thick skin.

I don't have a racist bone in my body.

I was always an MMO fan. I'm playing 'World of Warcraft' in the clubhouse, and J.D. Drew and Coco Crisp saw me playing. They came over and got interested, and they wound up creating accounts.

My whole life was spent doing things that people didn't believe were possible, because God blessed me with the ability to throw a baseball.

I always believed God gave us the tools to take care of ourselves.

I'm a Republican. I'm a former Red Sox. I have a nasty habit of talking - a lot - about anything anyone asks me and totally unconcerned about giving you my opinion. You will never question where I stand - right or wrong, agree or disagree - on anything.

If you think about a lifestyle short of retirement that lends itself to being a hardcore gamer, there is none better than being a major league starting pitcher. I work once every five days and travel and am alone all the time. So while the other guys were spending their money on the all the cars and jewelry, I bought laptops.

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.

I'm loud. I talk too much; I think I know more than I do - those and a billion other issues I know I have.

Only a geek would say this, but my first true love was a game called 'Wizardry'; that was the game that hooked me forever.