No reason. Because it’s always been done that way. That’s the standard explanation for anything.

People value happiness by what it costs.

A sheep in wolf’s clothing should not bleat within the pack.

The learned Paracelsus wrote that anything is poisonous in sufficient dosage.

And as for recreation, variety was a large part of it. Why sing the same song every night when there were so many beautiful melodies around to try? Of.

Strange how what one saw depended on how one looked.

We were not mad youngsters, but love is not confined to the young. Indeed, true love is a phenomenon of middle age, for only then can one be sure that what one feels is not all lust. Passion is a product of love, not its source. Why do the young never see this?

It was pretty easy to wait. I don't want him going out there the least bit restricted, and then all of a sudden his delivery changes and he gets into some kind of bad habits or hurts himself worse. The bullpen is well-rested, especially the guys that are able to give us innings: Eldred and Thompson. It's a pretty easy decision to make.

It was not a close call at all, simply because Marquis can be tremendously valuable to us out of the bullpen,

It's big because for these guys to come in and do the job that they're being asked to do early builds confidence in them and for us as well. You hope that it happens enough that it snowballs a little bit and these guys establish the attitude that they need to have.