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"I wasn't sure if the wine was breathing, so I've been giving it mouth to mouth."

Brian wanted to call the presentation "Synergy". Paula wanted to call it "Cooperation". They could never agree.

"I believe we've found the weakest link."

'Looks like your cash cow just got diverted to the slaughterhouse.'

Alternative fielding positions

Kitchen Tetris

'So far, sir, we've rejected plans A,B, C, D, E, F, and right now we're evaluating'G'.'

"Works every time."

Carlo Ancelotti

Bowling ball head.

"That was a rumor day."

"So this is it...the first day of the new school year. I guess studying, tests and report cards are still the hot things around here."

'Remember, shares can also go down...'

'Thank you colonel we'll keep your strategy in mind.'

Good poetry & Winning teams

"I know I told you to fool him into thinking you've got nothing left, but now you've got me convinced."

'This board meeting will come to order!'

Manager. Managing a political campaign and a baseball team are alike in many ways. A campaign is launched with a "first pitch," when a candidate gives a speech selling himself or herself. I change pitchers based on the game situation. In politics and baseball, sometimes it's best to come from the right side and sometimes it's best to come from the left side. We study our competitors' weaknesses and exploit those. In politics we call that "opposition research." And I don't worry about the

'I don't know about you, Sam, but so far my clients aren't going for this cross between tradtional and online trading.'

'We let 65 people try the '03 Malbec and told them they couldn't just describe it as 'good'. The result: 65 said it was 'very good'.'

Arsene Wenger

'I wonder who they'll bring on as manager for the second half.'

"Buy on the dip, ignore the blip, and sell before the bubble bursts."

The invisible hand of the marketplace.

'Yeah, I think it has too much tannin, too.'

'Cap'n, why's the enemy fire so accurate after we deployed the smoke screen?'

'The workers talk about football, managers talk about tennis, and top brass talk about golf.' - 'So the bigger the job the smaller the balls.'

Chess Chef

No caption (A ball boy crouches by the net on a ping pong table as a game is being played).

Sports Medicine

'And that's the latest on today's coaching changes.'

"I think the cots go in the tent!"

Manuel Pellegrini

A Tenpin Bowling Pin about to be executed by Bowling balls

Sun Tzu takes on Heisenberg