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Optimist vs. Pessimist: A Winter Meetings Primer

We’ve all seen it. Four cars roll up to a four-way stop. They sit, paralyzed, waiting for someone to make the first move.

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This is how it goes. The players looking for the once-in-a-lifetime haul. The buyers waiting for a bargain. Each side looking both ways for the fool about to step on the gas and boot-scoot it thru the intersection, sending chrome and chaos everywhere. In the past, the New York Yankees have been that team—and given Brian Cash-man’s boastful proclamation that “we have a fully operational death star”—they may very well still be.