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Dodgers Unwilling to Bet the Farm (Team), Buy Japanese Import, Kuroda
The American idiom bet the farm is defined as to risk everything you have because you are certain of something. If baseball, and the prices that George Steinbrenner pays his player teaches us anything, there is no such thing as sure thing.
My local Dodgers are blessed with a good farm system and [...]
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- In Awe of Maurice
December 13th, 2007I’m usually the last to leave my office. Around 6pm, Maurice comes to our building to tidy the four suites on our floor and the one suite on the floor below ours. Tonight he asked me how he thought “our Dodgers” would do this year, and the conversation turned to my asking him [...]
