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The Red Sox Are A Curious Thing Because So Much Here Is Media Driven. You Can't Go Fire Half Your Scouts Here Because They Are All Friends With The Local Reporters. Your Life Is Going To Hell In The Papers.

The Incentive For The Outsider Is To Attack The System Right Up To The Moment He Is Co-opted By It. The Incentive For The Insider -and This Took Some Getting Used To- Is To Allow Yourself To Be Attacked, And Then Co-opt Your Most Ferocious Attackers, And Their Best Ideas. The Effect On The System As A Whole Is To Make It More Stable, Because Everyone Winds Up Working On Its Behalf.

A Thought Crossed His Mind: How Do You Make Poor People Feel Wealthy When Wages Are Stagnant? You Give Them Cheap Loans.

Some Coaches Believed They Could Judge A Player's Performance Simply By Watching It. In This They Were Deeply Mistaken. The Naked Eye Was An Inadequate Tool For Learning What You Needed To Know To Evaluate Baseball Players And Baseball Games. Think About It. One Absolutely Cannot Tell, By Watching, The Difference Between A .300 Hitter And A .275 Hitter. The Difference Is One Hit Every Two Weeks. The Difference Between A Good Hitter And An Average Hitter Is Simply Not Visible-it Is A Matter Of Record

As Idiotic As Optimism Can Sometimes Seem, It Has A Weird Habit Of Paying Off.