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If something is 90 percent successful its going to be a failure. If the 10 percent causes some sort of outbreak among the participants and also if theres a public perception that somehow sports is getting preferential treatment when other people within society need it as much or more thats a public relations nightmare. I think that baseball faces a different circumstance because even playing half-a-season involves so many more games. What basketball and hockey are looking at, if theyre able, is some kind of playoff thing that starts right away. Just start the playoffs based on where the regular season left off and get it over with. Major League Baseball, to have any kind of valid season leading into the playoffs, have to play 80 games or so. JIM GRAY SAYS HES BUYING STOCK IN BRADY-GRONK BUCS, MLB NEUTRAL SITE PLAN NOT REALISTIC AT ALL Costas said that for baseball to have that type of season, its going to involve a lot more than just quarantining 750 players, their families, managers and more. A plan would have to include the people whodont get the backpage headlines. Not only would you have to quarantine them and the umpires and other officials, but what about the guy who picks up the towels in the locker room ? What about the guy who drives the bus or turns on the lights at the stadium even without fans ? Theres a lot of pitfalls here. People are going to get hurt and go on the injured list. What about Triple-A ? Theyre not playing minor league baseball. Whatre you gon na do ? You gon na quarantine 10 or 12 guys per team just in case somebody is hurt ? Theres a lot of things that can fall through the cracks here even with the best intentions and the best practices, he said. Costas also pondered how fans would be able to return to the ballparks and what social-distancing measures would be taken to keep fans from doing normal things. RED SOX CEO BELIEVES ALEX CORA WILL MANAGE AGAIN EVEN AFTER CHEATING-SCANDAL SUSPENSION [ A ] 90 or 95 percent is a good grade on most tests, it wouldnt be the right grade on this test, and think about it. Lets say you have 10,000 fans at the game and theyre socially distancing the seats, how are you gon na get them through the turnstiles in a socially distanced way and still start the game on time ? – Brian Kilmeade	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Across the globe, the mindset of the business leader is clearly that the world has changed in a very short space of time, we are in unchartered waters, filled with an unprecedented number of pitfalls, that are challenging some businesses' very existence. – Scott Mordell	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It wasn't because we were walking enthusiasts or because we love to walk. When we started we were just trying to save our own lives, how do we not fall in these pitfalls that our mothers and our aunts and our grandmothers have fallen into ? Eighty percent of us are overweight and carrying that weight is killing us now at disproportionate levels. We can't do it anymore. We can't carry it anymore. – Morgan Dixon	Found on CNN 4 years ago
These are jointly shared principles, although the pitfalls lie in the details. – Angela Merkel	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
These are jointly shared principles, although the pitfalls lie in the details, for us, it was important that we have a commitment for a rule-based trade order, that we continue to fight against protectionism and that we want to reform the WTO. – Angela Merkel	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
He is walking institutional knowledge. He knows where the pitfalls are before anybody else even thinks about them. – Barry Bennett	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think everyone wants it to work because Prince Harry is adored around the world, he’s the little boy who lost his mother at 12. He was a slightly off the rails teenager who became a war hero fighting on the frontlines… We want the fairy tale, which has had some tragic lows across the last 30-40 years. The overriding message of the documentary is 'fingers crossed.' Meghan Markle with Prince Harry after their engagement announcement. (Reuters) But those in the documentary warned that this world is not without its pitfalls, Bullen said. You marry into a world that’s diamonds and furs and castles and servants and literally knights in shining armor. But it all comes with a price. Are you ready to pay that price? – Spun Gold	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
There are pitfalls and people have to be very careful. – Gary Brown	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
T Rowe Price runs mutual funds and allocates capital, but they may regret trying to do this themselves, this is just one of the pitfalls with appraisal, and it's not for novices. – Minor Myers	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
None of us are under any illusions. We're all aware of the potential pitfalls and there are plenty of reasons for skepticism, but history would judge us harshly if we did not do our part in at least trying to end this terrible conflict with diplomacy. – President Barack Obama on Thursday	Found on CNN 8 years ago
You can see all the pitfalls in this, it beggars the imagination how it's going to happen. – Joshua Landis	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Girls are learning at the youngest ages that their value comes from how they look, and the definition of attractive is very narrowly defined as being sexy or sassy (for the younger girls), sexuality is imposed upon them inappropriately, and they are encouraged to define their bodies -- not by how their bodies feel to themselves, but by how they look to others. This creates vulnerabilities for girls to the pitfalls we worry about -- distorted body image, eating disorders, depression and unhealthy sexual behavior. – Peggy Orenstein	Found on CNN 8 years ago
When people actually get to their caucuses and get in the polling booth, they're going to want someone who at least has a record, i think these outside candidates are appealing now, but they will have their pitfalls. You're kind of seeing that happening now with Carson's comments and others. – Cory Crowley	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Those who cause dissensions in order to injure other people are preparing pitfalls for their own ruin. – Chinese	added by anonymous 12 years ago
...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness. – Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison	added by anonymous 14 years ago

If something is 90 percent successful its going to be a failure. If the 10 percent causes some sort of outbreak among the participants and also if theres a public perception that somehow sports is getting preferential treatment when other people within society need it as much or more thats a public relations nightmare. I think that baseball faces a different circumstance because even playing half-a-season involves so many more games. What basketball and hockey are looking at, if theyre able, is some kind of playoff thing that starts right away. Just start the playoffs based on where the regular season left off and get it over with. Major League Baseball, to have any kind of valid season leading into the playoffs, have to play 80 games or so. JIM GRAY SAYS HES BUYING STOCK IN BRADY-GRONK BUCS, MLB NEUTRAL SITE PLAN NOT REALISTIC AT ALL Costas said that for baseball to have that type of season, its going to involve a lot more than just quarantining 750 players, their families, managers and more. A plan would have to include the people whodont get the backpage headlines. Not only would you have to quarantine them and the umpires and other officials, but what about the guy who picks up the towels in the locker room ? What about the guy who drives the bus or turns on the lights at the stadium even without fans ? Theres a lot of pitfalls here. People are going to get hurt and go on the injured list. What about Triple-A ? Theyre not playing minor league baseball. Whatre you gon na do ? You gon na quarantine 10 or 12 guys per team just in case somebody is hurt ? Theres a lot of things that can fall through the cracks here even with the best intentions and the best practices, he said. Costas also pondered how fans would be able to return to the ballparks and what social-distancing measures would be taken to keep fans from doing normal things. RED SOX CEO BELIEVES ALEX CORA WILL MANAGE AGAIN EVEN AFTER CHEATING-SCANDAL SUSPENSION [ A ] 90 or 95 percent is a good grade on most tests, it wouldnt be the right grade on this test, and think about it. Lets say you have 10,000 fans at the game and theyre socially distancing the seats, how are you gon na get them through the turnstiles in a socially distanced way and still start the game on time ?

– Brian Kilmeade

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Across the globe, the mindset of the business leader is clearly that the world has changed in a very short space of time, we are in unchartered waters, filled with an unprecedented number of pitfalls, that are challenging some businesses' very existence.

– Scott Mordell

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It wasn't because we were walking enthusiasts or because we love to walk. When we started we were just trying to save our own lives, how do we not fall in these pitfalls that our mothers and our aunts and our grandmothers have fallen into ? Eighty percent of us are overweight and carrying that weight is killing us now at disproportionate levels. We can't do it anymore. We can't carry it anymore.

– Morgan Dixon

Found on CNN
4 years ago

These are jointly shared principles, although the pitfalls lie in the details.

– Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

These are jointly shared principles, although the pitfalls lie in the details, for us, it was important that we have a commitment for a rule-based trade order, that we continue to fight against protectionism and that we want to reform the WTO.

– Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

He is walking institutional knowledge. He knows where the pitfalls are before anybody else even thinks about them.

– Barry Bennett

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think everyone wants it to work because Prince Harry is adored around the world, he’s the little boy who lost his mother at 12. He was a slightly off the rails teenager who became a war hero fighting on the frontlines… We want the fairy tale, which has had some tragic lows across the last 30-40 years. The overriding message of the documentary is 'fingers crossed.' Meghan Markle with Prince Harry after their engagement announcement. (Reuters) But those in the documentary warned that this world is not without its pitfalls, Bullen said. You marry into a world that’s diamonds and furs and castles and servants and literally knights in shining armor. But it all comes with a price. Are you ready to pay that price?

– Spun Gold

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

There are pitfalls and people have to be very careful.

– Gary Brown

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

T Rowe Price runs mutual funds and allocates capital, but they may regret trying to do this themselves, this is just one of the pitfalls with appraisal, and it's not for novices.

– Minor Myers

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

None of us are under any illusions. We're all aware of the potential pitfalls and there are plenty of reasons for skepticism, but history would judge us harshly if we did not do our part in at least trying to end this terrible conflict with diplomacy.

– President Barack Obama on Thursday

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You can see all the pitfalls in this, it beggars the imagination how it's going to happen.

– Joshua Landis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Girls are learning at the youngest ages that their value comes from how they look, and the definition of attractive is very narrowly defined as being sexy or sassy (for the younger girls), sexuality is imposed upon them inappropriately, and they are encouraged to define their bodies -- not by how their bodies feel to themselves, but by how they look to others. This creates vulnerabilities for girls to the pitfalls we worry about -- distorted body image, eating disorders, depression and unhealthy sexual behavior.

– Peggy Orenstein

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When people actually get to their caucuses and get in the polling booth, they're going to want someone who at least has a record, i think these outside candidates are appealing now, but they will have their pitfalls. You're kind of seeing that happening now with Carson's comments and others.

– Cory Crowley

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Those who cause dissensions in order to injure other people are preparing pitfalls for their own ruin.

– Chinese

added by anonymous
12 years ago

...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.

– Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

– Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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