Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Guesswork,” one regional scout for an American League team told me. “Complete guesswork.” Scouts responsible for an entire quadrant of the country can’t follow the Chris Schutts of the world around for much of the season, so this might be the only chance they get to see him in game action...
...what you’d call ‘body scouts’. And if you come here, look at a guy’s frame, you’ll be right about as much of the time [as anyone else]. It’s all guesswork...
...invocation of Ben Crockett ’02, who is off to a good start in the minors, is a reminder that good things can come of the guesswork; it wasn’t long ago that Crockett and Yale’s Jon Steitz filled those stands completely. But today’s star arguably isn’t who the scouts came in for. Schutt falters in the later innings while Arthur Hendricks III, Harvard pitcher, tosses eight strong against the Big Red, striking out 11 and—perhaps—forcing the assembled scouts to give...
...We’re eliminating the guesswork,” Barro said. “Now we know exactly where the money is going...
...President Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. The scientists and their families could then join “a witness protection program” planned for such defectors. Especially in these most urgent and time-constrained of circumstances, weapons inspection relies on a kind of educated guesswork; inside information could eliminate much of this uncertainty and mean the difference between peace and an extended, disastrous...