It used to be that players in professional sports could change teams only if they were traded, sold or released.

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He feels that the plot hinges on mysticism or religious mystification. In any case, he makes it very clear, a too vividly apparent transcendent element of sorts, which he says he's worried can only expedite, move up, the day and hour of my professional undoing.

他感觉到了情节是靠神秘或宗教的神秘推动的,无论如何，他的感受非常清晰，一个他担心过于生动的明显的非凡的因素，只能加速，上升，我职业毁灭的时刻。

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