With all this talk about which baseball players have taken steroids in the past, you constantly hear all these talk show yoyos saying “would you bet your life on this or that”? First of all, what do you win if you bet your life and win? Do you win another life? Someone else’s life? A guaranteed afterlife? There is no phrase as dumb as “you bet your life because you could be right 9 out of 10 times and I think we would still call that a bad day. |
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I have never understood that phrase either. Like you said you only have to lose once to have a really bad day. Maybe we should stick to betting on things we can afford to lose. Like "I bet my wife". Just a thought.
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