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A meeting
Harrelson is furious. He calls another meeting of his baseball people.
“This is ridiculous,” he tells them. “We have all the resources we need. I am willing to spend whatever it takes to get whatever we need. Why are we not winning games?”
“Dad,” says Jack, “it is impossible for a baseball team to win every game.”
The elder Harrelson pauses a moment and sighs. “It is not that I criticize the team for not winning every game. These boys are out there playing hard every day. I see them. It is that we are not doing everything we can to make this team win. Surely no team can win every game. Even I know that. But we have to try to win every game.”
The others stare at him, and then Ronnie Marrs, one of the VPs, speaks. “So what would you have us do, sir? What do you think needs to be done that is not being done?”
“That is what I pay you men to figure out,” says Harrelson. “If this team does not start winning games, some of you will not be invited back into this office. Now go and do what I pay you to do!”
The men scamper out, heads down.
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