Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours. ― Yogi Berra
Baseball season officially started a week ago, and the Atlanta Braves have already exceeded my expectations by winning six of their first seven games. Of course, the season is long, but after management traded away most of the team’s existing stars in the offseason, my expectations were set extremely low.
I never expected the Braves to get above .500 after the first game of the season, to be brutally honest.
So in honor of the start of baseball season, I thought I’d dig up a couple of quotes from the immortal Yogi Berra, notorious for his verbal gaffes and malapropisms, who allegedly also said that, “Ninety percent of the game is half mental” and “I never said most of the things I said.”
Quotes like those cause me to wonder if Yogi might have started playing baseball before the catcher’s mask was invented.
After all, his more memorable utterances sound as if they came from someone who had one too many foul tips bounce off his skull.
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