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Monty Hall, nothing personal pick of the day. How do you like that? Coke on a Monday to

start like that? Three, two, six. Monty Hall, nothing personal word of the day for Monday,

August 31st. It's the trade deadline, image Lee baseball. Monty Hall, you may know him

because he's been reincarnated as Wayne Brady, but they are the game show host for Let's

Make a Deal. That's that crazy game show where you dress up as some sort of character,

and then you get chosen by the game show host, and then you get to choose what's behind

door number one, or would you like what's behind door number two, and then you win like

a bowl of rice, and you say would you like to trade that for what's behind door number

four, and then you could win like a spoon, or you could win a trip to Cancun. That's sort

of what it is like in Major League Baseball when you're making deals. You want to make deals

because you want to excite your fan base. You want to make deals because your owner wants

you to get better and feels like standing still means you're not getting better, not realizing

that developing players actually means that you're getting better, sometimes keeping

your own players and developing them makes you better. Other times, if you're not improving,

you're going backwards. There are a lot of teams in baseball that don't want to do that.

This is a strange deadline date is August 31st. This used to be the date on the calendar

after which playoff rosters had to be set. So there would be things called August trade

waiver deals. That would come after the actual MLB trade deadline which used to be July 31st.

And those would be trades only of players who had secured waivers which means that they

went unclaimed by any of the other 29 teams. But then MLB said, let's get more excitement

around the trade deadline. People love it. We can do 12 hours of programming on MLB network.

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