John Thorn Quotes - Page 2

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• In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

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  Baseball, Team, Years

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• Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

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  Retirement, Reality, Play

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• And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

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  Baseball, Running, Player

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• Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

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  Baseball, Dream, Lucky

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• Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.

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  Baseball, Fall, Player

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• Just because I am increasingly bored by sabermetric arcana doesn't mean anyone else has to be; it remains good for people who like that sort of thing.

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  Mean, People, Bored

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Life is more about losing than winning.

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  Winning, Losing, Life Is

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• Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath.

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  Games, Play, Score

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• In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

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  Sports, Pride, Community

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• If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

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  Games, Ties, Events

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• I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth.

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  Running, Thinking, Youth

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• Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.

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  Father, Son, Years

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• The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

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  Summer, Hero, Boys

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