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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- There is no better bar scene than the one that happens early every December at baseballs winter meetings. There, over adult sodas, people from every corner of baseball come together and talk shop. Ideas fly and tongues loosen and your rumors are born.But it feels like weve heard all the rumors, and so many of the trades are already in the rear-view mirror. Thats fine. Under the protection of anonymity, theres so much more that those baseball people can teach a curious person.So I asked as many people as I could some version of these questions: What is the thing that would most surprise someone outside of baseball about what happens inside baseball? What were you shocked to learn when you got to peek under the hood? What do we not know about how the sport is run?The answers were as diverse as the roles of the people who gave them. But up and down the answers from people all over baseballs front offices, three particular themes emerged.OwnershipIts underappreciated how much of an impact ownership has on every situation, one person told me.Fans see the general manager on television and think hes making every decision -- one characterized the GM as the face of the franchise. We think they have the ability to make every decision based on maybe a little constraint from an ownership-issued budget. But reality is fairly different.One member of a front office talked about deals that had been nixed because they reached a bit far into the clubs coffers. Others speculated that certain players had been signed because the owner willed it to be.And there arent just explicit decisions from ownership. Cheap 49ers Jerseys Authentic . There are surprises among the Vezina candidates, but most of the others are standard top-tier performers, even if the two Hart Trophy runners-ups have never been quite as good as they have been through the first half of the season. Steve Young Jersey .500 on the season. The Jets are now 0-5-1 in the second game of back-to-backs. The game started the same way the Vancouver game started the night before, with the Jets taking the first two penalties of the game and killing off the first, but the Oilers getting on the board first, scoring on the second man-advantage. http://www.cheap49ersjerseysauthentic.com/?tag=authentic-joe-montana-jersey .S. Open champion Justin Rose birdied the first hole with a blind shot he hit to a foot of the pin, and he stayed in front Tuesday until he completed a 4-under 67 for a two-shot lead over Jason Dufner in PGA Grand Slam of Golf. Wholesale 49ers Jerseys . Louis. To which I would say two things: 1. Where there is smoke, there is or perhaps has been a little fire. Or, in other words, the two teams would appear to have at least spoken. And spoken is defined as one calling the other to inquire, no more, no less. Jerry Rice Jersey .Y. -- Injured Buffalo Sabres forward Marcus Foligno did not practice with the team Monday and head coach Ron Rolston said its unlikely hell play in Wednesdays season opener in Detroit. New Orleans Saints quarterback and Purdue Boilermakers great Drew Brees?took advantage of a free weekend and returned to his alma mater.On Friday, the day before the Boilermakers home game against No. 7 Wisconsin, Brees gave the team a pep talk:In the passionate speech, Brees recalled his memorable wins at Purdue against high-ranked foes Kansas State, Michigan, Michigan State and Ohio State. Brees said he remembers the players he won those games with and the locker rooms after each win. Three of those guys, hhe said, were in the back of the room as he delivered the speech.ddddddddddddhe current Boilermakers are 3-7 and saw former head coach Darrell Hazell get fired in October. Brees, however, pointed out that his 1997 recruiting class was ranked dead last in the Big Ten. He and his teammates ended up winning a Big Ten championship and putting that Rose in their mouths.-- John Wilmhoff ' ' '