OLD WORDS—“HOT STOVE LEAGUE.”

OLD WORDS—“HOT STOVE LEAGUE.” The baseball Winter Meetings are taking place now in Nashville. In discussions with people who are not fanatics about baseball, I have discovered that the phrase “Hot Stove League” is unfamiliar. Now is the season for the Hot Stove League. The Hot Stove League consists of talk about next year –focusing on possible trades–that takes place between the end of the World Series and the beginning of Spring Training. It calls up memories of fans sitting around a pot-bellied stove and dreaming of Opening Day. (Yes, kids, I saw a couple pot-bellied stoves back in the day).

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6 Responses to OLD WORDS—“HOT STOVE LEAGUE.”

  1. Nick says:

    I have a dire need for a pot-bellied stove as apparently our modern heating in the house i live in doesn’t work. $5 billion endowment, and Emory cannot heat or cool a building properly. My freshman year I spent three weeks in Atlanta heat with the HEAT on in my building.

    This is absurd.

  2. Mary Jane Schaefer says:

    Does the 5 billion dollar library’s heat work?

  3. Nick says:

    Yes, the library’s gorgeous. I sound like a spoiled brat.

  4. Annalisa says:

    As a student I slept in my university library pretty comfortably, although I did it for other reasons than heating problems. Just put a book on your chest and no one will question it. In fact, finding sleeping students anywhere on a college campus (on the floor, in waiting areas, in computer clusters) is pretty much never questioned in my experience. I had a friend who wasn’t enrolled at the time but slept on a college campus successfully anyway. It might say something about the college lifestyle that to find a student asleep anywhere at any time is so common.

  5. Nick says:

    It’s of very little material at this point seeing as today and tomorrow it’ll be 80 degrees in Atlanta. Absurd, but delightful.

  6. Philip says:

    I have the impression that administrative services tend to be poor at universities. Peter Drucker, who favored out sourcing, claimed that tasks which are unrelated to the main purpose of an organization tend to be done poorly.

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