It was disappointing. I love being a baseball player. I love the city. I loved being a Red Sox. But read more

It was disappointing. I love being a baseball player. I love the city. I loved being a Red Sox. But it's a business. They do what they do to benefit the team.

You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.

You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.

We've got to support [Bush] as the commander in chief and we've got to support those young men and women read more

We've got to support [Bush] as the commander in chief and we've got to support those young men and women who are out there protecting our big, fat, bloated lifestyle.

This is a very important protest, with thousands and thousands of citizens defending their freedom ... they are not going read more

This is a very important protest, with thousands and thousands of citizens defending their freedom ... they are not going to give in to the persecution to which they are subjected,

I give her props. Everything I need to see done is channeled through her. It's a business relationship. If it read more

I give her props. Everything I need to see done is channeled through her. It's a business relationship. If it wasn't for her, we wouldn't where we are.

Yeah, definitely. I've never been in a playoff. I believe that these type of games, where you have to play read more

Yeah, definitely. I've never been in a playoff. I believe that these type of games, where you have to play every game to make it to the next step, I'll definitely take something out of it.

Before mid-October it will be up and running.

Before mid-October it will be up and running.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state

BB&T over the years largely has grown through the merger-and- acquisition process, acquiring community banks and thrifts, and that's been read more

BB&T over the years largely has grown through the merger-and- acquisition process, acquiring community banks and thrifts, and that's been successful on our part. Over the last year we've had a little of this indigestion from a lot of mergers over a short period. We needed to take a little breather to refocus on organic revenue growth, and we think we're near that period of time where our internal operations are where we want, so we're looking at getting back into the (M&A) business.