So there is no point in pulling the plug on a loser until it is thoroughly and completely dead.

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Pulling the pitcher at that point would have been consistent the Sabermetrics-based approach to game decisions that had been instituted by the Red Sox front office.

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This envisages the country pulling out because its competitiveness erodes to a point where membership becomes too painful.

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