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

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Life is more about losing than winning.

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There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.

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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…

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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…

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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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My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured…

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More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time…

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I`m bored of being bored because being bored is very boring

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I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn't fit me.

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The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

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When people look in the mirror, sometimes they see are their shells in the mirror, nothing else.

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I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.

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