There you go. There you go.

Adage. Nothing personal word of the day is adage.

Adage is a proverb or a short statement expressing a general truth.

I thought of adage because of what's going on today and I'm leading off the show with this.

Here's an adage that I was taught as a child, as a small child, as a small teenager, as a small young adult.

I was always told at home, sticks and stones may break your bones, but names will never hurt me.

That's called an adage.

I've thought about that a lot in these past few days as Torrey Hunter, the former Major League Baseball player,

when public was something that those of us in the industry have always known,

that going to Fenway Park was never a walk in the park having nothing to do with the quality of team on the field.

It had to do with the lack of quality of human beings in the stands.

Torrey Hunter went public saying that I would negotiate no trade clauses.

That's why I was never in Marlon. I would negotiate no trade clauses saying, trade me anywhere, but I will not play in Boston.

I would not have been in the park claiming that he had been called the N-word.

Time and time again, while patrolling the outfield in the hallowed grounds of Fenway Park.

And immediately when I read what he said, I wasn't surprised by it because that's something that had been talked about in our clubhouse often.

With not just black players, white players, Hispanic players, we talk about the fans in Boston, we talk about the fans in Philly.

They always ranked one and two in terms of misguided passion is what we would call it.

We always respected the fact that they would sell out.

They always drew more than we ever did in Miami.

But the players couldn't get over the fact that they'd look in the stands and players were always taught.

We would teach them ignore when people are yelling at you or heckling you.

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