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Mike Barnicle

Mike Barnicle is a social and political commentator and a contributor and occasional guest host on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and "Hardball with Chris Matthews" shows. Mike Barnicle can also been seen regularly on NBC's Today Show. Mike Barnicle has won numerous local and national awards and recognition for his print and broadcast work over more than 35 years in journalism, including honors from AP, UPI, DuPont Columbia and the National Headliners Awards.

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Mike Barnicle on Baseball

His Five Best Quotes

Mike Barnicle in Ken Burns's "The Tenth Inning"

"Tito and Theo" might be Mike Barnicle's most recent and most discussed baseball piece, but it's by far the only one. Here are a few of his best quotes from the work spanning some 20 years:

"Baseball is a game of memory, and it returns tomorrow to a place where grass has not yet given way to a carpet. It comes home to a green haven filled with reminders of both heartbreak and happiness, a ballyard called Fenway Park where the cargo of past athletic time refuses to yield to sports' current themes of greed and arrogance."

"Baseball is part of history's menu. It is filled with small slices of youth, adolescence and adulthood, and anybody can order a la carte."

"Baseball is timeless, and so, too, are its memories. Like the players themselves, scattered about the diamond in position, the memories of baseball can be isolated and called up on a mental Instant-Replay whenever the mood or moment summons."

"Spring training is the baseball equivalent of a hospital maternity unit. All eyes are on those whose careers are in their infancy, and each day, though long and repetitious, contains the joy of an expected optimism that might never arrive."

Mike Barnicle on Media Business

From a 2009 interview Mike Barnicle gave to Boston Magazine

I think, listen, it's still a great, but vastly diminished business, due to economics and everything like that. 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. The people who buy the product, who buy the papers, who buy the magazines. And there's an attack mentality, especially in newspapers, TV is basically skywriting, especially in newspapers, that makes people uncomfortable. It just does. And to ignore that, to deny, that that's the case, is foolish. You know, I'm not saying every edition you have to have all good news in the paper, that can't happen. But the things that we fail at, I happen to think, my opinion, are the most critical aspects of our culture. We fail to cover public education in the country, the way we should. Whether we're talking about the Boston public school system, the New York, or the Washington public school system.

Boston Magazine, 2009

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A Worcester native, Mike Barnicle has written more than 4,000 columns collectively for the Boston Herald, New York Daily News, and The Boston Globe, where he rose to prominence with his biting, satirical, and at times, heart-wrenching columns that closely followed the triumphs, travails and ambitions of Boston's working and middle classes. He has also written articles and commentary for Time Magazine, Newsweek.com, The Huffington Post, ESPN Magazine, Esquire, among others.