Comments on: The Orioles are sniffing around for some starting pitching help http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/05/the-orioles-are-sniffing-around-for-some-starting-pitching-help/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Fri, 24 May 2013 18:15:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Old Gator http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/05/the-orioles-are-sniffing-around-for-some-starting-pitching-help/comment-page-1/#comment-125220 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:22:09 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49753#comment-125220 When my dog “sniffs around,” you know what he sniffs? Right, my other dogs’…eh…well, you know. It makes a nice image,a bunch of general managers sniffing each others’…eh, well, you know. Here’s a great little story from Bertrand Tavernier’s great film Coupe de Torchon, kind of a goof on the myth about why there are men and women from Plato’s Symposium: once upon a time there was a party and all the dogs were invited, only the hostess, being a clean freak, insisted that they leave their assholes outside by the door. While they were partying, a wind came up and blew all the assholes around. When the dogs left, they were so drunk each one just grabbed any asshole they saw. And that’s why, to this day, dogs sniff each other, looking for their original assholes.

Seems to me a terrific metaphor for, say, the winter meetings….

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