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The '''Hot Stove League''' is a [[baseball]]-related term, referring to the off-season. Therefore, it is not actually a "league", but the term instead calls up images of baseball fans, anxious for the start of the new season, gathering around a hot [[stove]] during the cold [[winter]] [[month]]s discussing their favorite baseball teams. The term has also come to refer to the wave of off-season player transactions (trades, re-signings, [[free agent|free agency]], etc.) that occur between seasons. Since most free agent signings and trades occur during the off-season, this time of significant player transactions (including [[rumor]]s and speculation about possible trades), is often referred to as the "Hot Stove League" or sometimes more simply "Hot Stove". |
The '''Hot Stove League''' is a [[baseball]]-related term, referring to the off-season. Therefore, it is not actually a "league", but the term instead calls up images of baseball fans, anxious for the start of the new season, gathering around a hot [[stove]] during the cold [[winter]] [[month]]s discussing their favorite baseball teams. The term has also come to refer to the wave of off-season player transactions (trades, re-signings, [[free agent|free agency]], etc.) that occur between seasons. Since most free agent signings and trades occur during the off-season, this time of significant player transactions (including [[rumor]]s and speculation about possible trades), is often referred to as the "Hot Stove League" or sometimes more simply "Hot Stove". |
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A number of pundits who have mourned the demise of the hot stove league in recent years. Many consider the term "passe", and Jerry Green of the Detroit Free Press has recently noted that it has been relegated to the nostalgia of "old-fashioned dreamers."<ref>http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071104/OPINION03/711040324/1129/SPORTS0104</ref> |
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Revision as of 06:32, 4 December 2007
The Hot Stove League is a baseball-related term, referring to the off-season. Therefore, it is not actually a "league", but the term instead calls up images of baseball fans, anxious for the start of the new season, gathering around a hot stove during the cold winter months discussing their favorite baseball teams. The term has also come to refer to the wave of off-season player transactions (trades, re-signings, free agency, etc.) that occur between seasons. Since most free agent signings and trades occur during the off-season, this time of significant player transactions (including rumors and speculation about possible trades), is often referred to as the "Hot Stove League" or sometimes more simply "Hot Stove".
Since 2000
A number of pundits who have mourned the demise of the hot stove league in recent years. Many consider the term "passe", and Jerry Green of the Detroit Free Press has recently noted that it has been relegated to the nostalgia of "old-fashioned dreamers."[1]
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