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Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Players play. “The relationship between player and team is irretrievably broken. It’s soured. He’s part of the old ownership regime. The new ownership regime needs to get new parts into this plan and move forward, and he needs to get on with his career where he’s got a chance to win. The big issue is him winning and winning now.
General manager builds the team. “Should we feel like we need to make a trade involving any of our under-contract, controllable players, we will be the ones who initiate that conversation and always do what’s best for the organization,” Hill said at the time.
Of course, the Marlins encouraged this uprising by poorly managing the Stanton situation.
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1. snapper (history's 42nd greatest monster) Posted: January 16, 2018 at 09:59 PM (#5607764)Then, let us commend them for doing so much in only three months!
You're right. It will get worse.
This agent chap hasn't read the Primer Talking Points Memo.
I couldn't tell if this means:
"It's only been three months, calm down guys"
or
"It's amazing how horribly they've bungled this in only three months"
When your car breaks down, don't you generally try and fix it?
I think he was correcting the quote to what it should have been. The agent's quote says "irretrievably broken."
S.C.U.B.A. divers searching for doubloons off the Florida coast???
I think it's perfectly fine to describe a situation or relationship as "irretrievable". Broken is a metaphor already. there's no physical malfunction.
Sure but, cue grammar nerds, "irretrievably" is an adverb so clearly attached to the adjective "broken" which makes no sense to me. Granted, "irreparably broken" is a bit redundant -- if it needs repair, it's broken -- so just saying the relationship is "irreparable" would certainly be more concise. If you wanted to then suggest the relationship was at the bottom of the sea and therefore "irretrievable" instead, that's fine I guess.
That said ... I must concede. Apparently in law circles a marriage can deteriorate to the point where it is an "irretrievable breakdown" (per OED) and I suppose that means the relationship is irretrievably broken. His agent, probably a lawyer, is seeking a divorce. (Note this is a "draft addition" for 2017 in the online OED, don't go rushing to your print copy!)
Also OED seems to accept both ir- and un- but says the latter is less common these days.
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