watching the wolf talk to Little Red Riding Hood
He should easily be called out on his swindling, but for some reason he can talk his way into a deal with a naive GM
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- Dec 2018
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He has ceased to be the fire drill instructor and become the personal trainer
Not so much as an authoritarian now but more of a close associate trying to help someone
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He's no longer selling used cars. He's organizing a high-school fire drill and tolerating no cutups.
I guess the fire-drill means that he is not shooting the bleep anymore. He's cutting straight to the chase
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He's back to selling used cars
Venafro is the used car. Billy is the salesman trying to swindle the man for the deal
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When he was a young man,
This is a tangent-type sequence of paragraphs. It is used to hold the suspense of the deal and to provide the information how Billy is good at stuff, so he might get the deals.
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He's 26 and in Double A? Forget it.''
You'd think that he's being picky in this situation, but thats not the case. Check the paragraph after the Furbush quotation.
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The Mets are a good idea. Beane picks up the phone and dials the number for Steve Phillips, the general manager of the Mets. A secretary answers.
Throughout the sequence of deals Billy is trying to cut, the sentences have been short, choppy, and quick. This serves to show how fast Billy is doing all of this because he is under time pressure
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only other team in six figures
outsider vs. insider
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other end of the spectrum is Oakland
outsider vs. insider
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the Rangers, the Orioles, the Dodgers, the Mets
asyndeton is used to speed up the appositive and make it feel like so many teams--this to emphasize "littered"
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shop for whatever else he needed to get to the playoffs
Common theme is dehumanizing players, whether comparing them to cars, animals, or anything money can buy. The players are just property of the GM
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This experiment in bringing science to baseball had some odd consequences
What are they? This draws you in
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They responded by creating, in effect, a research-and-development department inside the organization. Oakland R.&D.
Makes what the A's are doing sound very official by giving it a proper name
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Magnante made an almost perfect pitch to Lee Stevens, a fastball low and away.
Continues with the opening scene
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fifth pitch.After the game
He starts in medias res then cuts to the end of the game to leave you hanging and wanting to know what happens
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