jad
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Agree, sadly, with every word. (As you say, not based on evidence--it's based on what we know of human nature.)
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Whoa ... Did I ... You guys pay money to get on a site that has stats????
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What you are saying, I realize, is that your brains are bigger than your nut, which I have found (usually by the merciless School of Experience) is a pretty good policy if you want to get anywhere in life! (Yet being an accountant, how could you not realize that if you go to a casino, the more you play the more you are likely to lose? --- I know I know. I'm not trying to seize the moral high ground; how could many of us not know that drinking alcohol can lead to drunkenness, rude and disgusting behavior, and in some cases death or a night of convulsions?)
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Ha. You can probably drink a glass of wine or two without becoming a drooling disgusting drunk within days. I can't do that! I'll bet you can even have a cigarette now and then!
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Nor do I! (If I did, I'd be one of those old guys from Atlantic City you see on tv with a Hawaiian shirt and straw hat: "I used to ahve a wife, kids, a house! I had a job, retirement! I had friends ... and then ....")
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Kimmi-- If you consider 60/40 odds a crapshoot, please join my poker game any time you want. (Las Vegas, on the other hand, setting up roulette wheels, crap tables, and similar scams, considers 51/49 odds a steady and certain form of revenue.)
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Sorry for the typo: I meant "bad teams have as good a chance of winning as good teams". But I'm not sure I follow the intricacies of the argument either way!
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All right. Either I have lost my mental capacity to follow a rational argument or there is none here. Ix there really a case being advanced (or one that is being imagined to be advanced by some 'other' poster) that bad teams have as good a chance of winning as bad [OOPS! typo--I mean 'good'] teams? (I believe that thinking has been what keeps me a Clippers fan).
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OK. I get the context now. BECAUSE teams are holding back, there are more opportunities for taking action, since other teams will not be willing to compete, and FAs might be fearful of holding out too long? Therefore, a team with resources definitely should act, and should do so now (the word "inefficiency" threw me off here.)
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Wait. I'm lost. Explain this please (either one of you): how is "trying to improve your team" a "market inefficiency"? I'm not arguing; I just don't understand that. And does this mean "therefore, one SHOULD try to improve a team"? or "one should not"?
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Thank God my parents had the good taste to die before that! (although my uncle is hanging in there at 98: he has dementia, but says it's fine, because he can now read all day and never has to turn the page!) -
Nice! (It really is a shame that workers are allowed to choose when to retire; that's a matter that should be left entirely up to the job-creating capitalist.)
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But that's not realistic. Sounds and systems of sounds are not the same in different languages. (How would you 'pronounce' the tonal qualities of Eastern languages?). So the 'proper' pronunciation of a word (that makes perfect sense in the context of its home language) would be ambiguous or unintelligible in a different language which lacks those sounds or distinctions. (Obvious examples, famailiar to anyone who has taught school in the last couple of decades), how to pronounce "Nguyen" or translate into English the ending of names transliterated as -eng. (It's like the irritating habit some Angelenos have of giving 'correct' and thus almost unintelligible pronunciations of Spanish names and words--words that would not be pronounced the same way by native Hispanic speakers on the East Coast.)
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Probably should make some effort to say "BONE-uh-FEEE-dace". Despite the fact there are no hard and fast rules regarding the way you pronounce words or names brought in from other languages.
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Ah, an urban guy! (Harpswell for me).
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Ha! Now that's a real Mainer. (During the summer, my phrase is "LA--by which I mean the OTHER LA")
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OK. Now I'm completely lost! I was saying ... oh never mind!
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Yeah, and who would want those clowns on your team, when you could have a reset and a couple of draft picks instead?
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What? ... You mean winter ends? (I also live in the same small town in Maine I grew up with. But I also got to take a day job in LA, so Ive been living the bicoastal life for about 40 years.)
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WHAT???? Players play for MONEY??? No way! O tempora! O mores! Where are the snows of yesteryear when players played for the sheer love of the game and for the enjoyment of their fans?
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I was walking up Broadway in NYC, didn't really know the game was on. I stopped in (my recollection says Lincoln Center, but that's impossible), where there was a TV on and had just time to take in the situation ("OMG! A playoff game??? And Yaz is up and OMG OMG ..."). That was the only AB I saw for the game.
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And then there was The Pop Up in 1978 ...
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But then, the team they consistently lost to had Hall of Famers at many positions, no?
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Well yes. Except for that part: The way to win a World Series is to have the best players. The Dodgers were willing to pay to get the best players, the RS were not. /end thread
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That's why I don't really follow it: it requires one's full attention. (I confess, though, that the 3-on-3 overtime is fantastic, and on a normal hockey night, I will always check the scores to see if I can catch an OT).
