inside-baseball

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This kind of inside-baseball question becomes more important, I think, when you get to the heart of a story, which in this kind of event means, of course, when things get political.

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  • However, as we "inside-baseball" political junkies dissect, examine, and fret about the little stuff like where the pauses are, the hand gestures, the right color tie, etc., we sometimes miss the simple stuff. —  Real Debate Wisconsin
  • A lot of these questions might seem too inside-baseball kind of stuff, but you can see where the consequences of action or inaction can lead you. —  Impolitical
  • I clearly have been paying too much attention to inside-baseball political maneuvering, semantics, and framing. —  Akkam's Razor
  • There is new evidence that concern about the budget rule - once an arcane, inside-baseball matter vigorously debated only by wooly-headed government geeks - has broken through to the public. —  independent.com stories
  • But when it came to a mandate, and one for Chicago only, it became a legislative inside-baseball game.
 

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