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At this point, the soul of professional sports is beyond worrying about: Athletes are frantically self-interested; marvelously self-absorbed; always looking for any edge, however unfair; and forever leaping from team to team in search of a few more dollars. In other words, the jock market already has the morals of the stock market.
That's the last paragraph of "The Jock Exchange"
Michael Lewis' contribution to the premier issue of
Portfolio. It's also a $636 paragraph, if this anonymous commenter at DealBreaker
is to be believed.
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