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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, especially during the [[winter meetings]]. 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". Essentially, teams continue competing, except it is the team owners and [[general manager]]s who are doing the playing, with the score being in terms of human resource losses and gains. |
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, especially during the [[winter meetings]]. 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". Essentially, teams continue competing, except it is the team owners and [[general manager]]s who are doing the playing, with the score being in terms of human resource losses and gains. |
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== Since 2000 == |
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A number of pundits have mourned the demise of the hot stove league in recent years. Many consider the term "passe", and Jerry Green of the Detroit News has recently noted that it has been relegated to the nostalgia of "old-fashioned dreamers".<ref>{{cite web |
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|title= Series isn't so classic anymore |date=2007-11-04 | author=Jerry Green |
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|publisher=[[The Detroit News]] |accessdate=2008-01-20}}{{dead link|date=October 2008}}</ref> |
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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 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, especially during the winter meetings. 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". Essentially, teams continue competing, except it is the team owners and general managers who are doing the playing, with the score being in terms of human resource losses and gains.
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