5 Top Quotes from 2008 Major League Baseball Season

Courtesy of ESPN's Jason Stark in his article, "Year-end awards: MVPs and LVPs, Cy Youngs and Yuks ..."


Fifth Place -- From Rays quotemeister Cliff Floyd, after witnessing yet another Tropicana Field home run that went up but didn't come down (because it got stuck in one of those pesky Trop catwalks):

• "Tell you what. What goes up in this park might not ever be found again."

Fourth prize -- From the Joaquin Andujar of his era, Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano, after his GM, Jim Hendry, pulled off a July trade for Rich Harden.

• "I have one word for Jim Hendry: Good job."

Third prize -- From global-minded Royals pitcher Brian Bannister, after a game in which it took him 90 pitches to get through three innings, thanks to a bunch of baseballs that couldn't locate the strike zone:

• "I like walks about as much as I like high gas prices."

Second prize -- From Ralph Nader, after he'd been told by Washington Post editors that the lack of coverage of his presidential campaign was because he had no chance of winning:

• "Then why are you covering the Nationals?"

First prize -- From Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi, on the late, great Yankee Stadium:

• "It's a place where men become children -- and children never forget as men."