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For instance: He drives one night from his office in Coral Gables, Florida, to a college in downtown Miami to attend a lecture by Magic Johnson and billionaire Mike Fernandez. The two are speaking about their many successes in business, and hundreds of aspiring entrepreneurs are on hand. At one point Magic asks the crowd to recognize a few luminaries in attendance. We got Ray Allen! Thunderous applause. And over here we got Alex Rodriguez! More applause, only slightly less thunderous... Alex Rodriguez's return to the New York Yankees

This event was at Miami Dade College at the Chapman Conference Center. It took place on January 14, 2015.

Magic Johnson is a businessman now, but he is also considered one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Mike Fernández runs MBF Healthcare Partners and is the author of the newly 2014 book, Humbled by the Journey: Life Lesson for My Family. He is also one of Magic Johnson’s business partners.

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... for him. Not right now. His suspension is over, but so is the public's suspension of disbelief. If he hopes to recapture the public trust, to repair his image, it will be through actions, not words. All human happiness or misery takes the form of action, Aristotle said, and though he was speaking of storytelling, life is a never-ending story, and what holds for plot often holds for ethics. Rodriguez, deep down, knows this. He knows he's not talking his way back from purgation. Reminded, he nods, I know, I kno... Alex Rodriguez's return to the New York Yankees

II. The most important of the six is the combination of the incidents of the story.

Tragedy i.e. sentially an imitation not of persons but of action and life, of happiness and misery. All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of activity, not a quality.

What it is, @PoetryGenius

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...usable, weirdly ironic. It's not a choice, to quote or not to quote, it's simple science, obeisance to strict natural laws, to the crazy alchemy between his damaged credibility and basic punctuation. Quoting Rodriguez is like dropping a Mento into a Diet Coke. It makes a big whoosh, everyone gets excited, for about three seconds, and then it's just a mess, and you wonder what's been accomplished, besides some stickiness, and maybe a permanent stain. Alex Rodriguez's return to the New York Yankees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vk4_2xboOE

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...ters are less offended by his mortal sins than his venial ones. For them, it's all about the man's unerring instinct for the eye-scalding optic. Slapping the ball. Poking the Sox. Kissing the mirror. Dissing Jeter. Dating Madonna -- of all his liaisons, the most dangereuse. (From a PR standpoint, he'd have been better served dating Bernie Madoff. In fact, he'd have been better served riding a tandem bike down B... Alex Rodriguez's return to the New York Yankees

This is referring to one of, if not the first news item of the long Derek Jeter/A-Rod feud (originally published in the April 2001 edition of Esquire Magazine, when A-Rod said this about #2:

Jeter’s been blessed with great talent around him […] He’s never had to lead. He can just go and play and have fun. And he hits second – that’s totally different than third and fourth in a lineup. You go into New York, you wanna stop Bernie and O'Neill. You never say, Don’t let Derek beat you. He’s never your concern."

(Check out the timeline here.)

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Some Rodriguez haters are less offended by his mortal sins than his venial ones. For them, it's all about the man's unerring instinct for the eye-scalding optic. Slapping the ball. Poking the Sox. Kissing the mirror. Dissing Jeter. Dating Madonna -- of all his liaisons, the most dangereuse. (From a PR standpoint, he'd have been better served dating Bernie Madoff. In fact, he'd have been better served riding a tan... Alex Rodriguez's return to the New York Yankees

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...eroids, including some of the game's best-known and most beloved names, but somehow Alex Rodriguez has become the steroid era's Lord Voldemort. Ryan Braun? Won an MVP, got busted for steroids, twice, called the tester an anti-Semite, lied his testes off, made chumps of his best friends, including Aaron Rodgers, and still doesn't inspire a scintilla of the ill will that follows Rodriguez around like a nuclear cloud. Alex Rodriguez's return to the New York Yankees

This was according to Yahoo! Sports MLB columnist, @JeffPassan. The article begins with the following paragraph:

Suspended Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun told players around baseball before spring training 2012 that [Dino Laurenzi Jr.] the man who collected his urine that tested positive for synthetic testosterone was anti-Semitic and a Chicago Cubs fan in an effort to gather support throughout the game[…]

Read the rest of the article here.

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...out what lies ahead. Pepi calls Rodriguez Gumba; his children and Rodriguez's daughters call one another Gumbita. They talk about the future, because that's what men with cigars always do eventually. Then they dare to talk about the past. The past is usually dark and foreboding, like the old Tiger Stadium, and no one likes to go there, but Pepi tonight is keying on 2009, when Rodriguez told all the haters, Silencio. With the lights of San Francisco guttering like candles in ... Alex Rodriguez's return to the New York Yankees

‘Tis indeed. Just ask Mark McGwire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=942HcHKbOno

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reporters noticed a canister of (then legal) testosterone precursor androstenedione in McGwire’s locker. Mick Warshaw – The Real PED Solution
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There was actually just one reporter who found Androstenedione in McGwire’s locker: Steve Wilstein of the Associated Press. He broke this news story to the public on August 21, 1998.

http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1998/Drug-OK-in-Baseball-Not-Olympics/id-87e8d2a7928c8de874fdc3f43b53a33a

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IZ: Last year we did the ability to embed. This year we’re doing the ability to literally annotate any website on the internet without embedding anything. Just going to any website and annotating using our special sauce — like, that’s an incr... Geniuses, Or Whatever: Tom Lehman and Ilan Zechory | WEEKEND

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... do stuff. You have to try things. There’s this great book called “Art and Fear,” which I’ve never read — I’m ordering from Amazon now, but I read an excerpt from it — okay, this is how honest I am — and the excerpt talked about how an artist is setting up a ceramics class and runs an experiment. (Actually, I’m very into ceramics and wheel-turned pottery so this is particularly salient for me.) But the basic idea: A teacher tried this experiment. He said, “Okay, two groups. The quantity group — I’m going to take all the pieces you make, put them on a scale, and if it’s past a certain weight, you get the A.  The quality group – you just have to make one great piece.” What they found was that the quantity group actually ended up with the best quality, because the quality group was just stressed out, and the quantity group was trying and refining and trying and trying and produced a lot of crap but ultimately ended up producing something good. Geniuses, Or Whatever: Tom Lehman and Ilan Zechory | WEEKEND

The excerpt can be found on several websites, including Jeff Atwood’s blog, Coding Horror; @LEMON has stated Atwood is a hero of his.

The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot – albeit a perfect one – to get an “A”.

Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work – and learning from their mistakes – the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.

A prime example of “Worse Is Better”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X45YY97FmL4

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