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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
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You don't change your soks in the middle of the World series

Hi what is the meaning of the above mentioned sentence in the following text?

Some trials required the use of several bags, but Facher always brought along the pig bag. "you don't change your socks in the middle of the World Series," he would tell young associates at the legal firm.

  

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There are a lot of superstitions about sports and about baseball. If you are winning, you keep doing what you're doing. You wear the same pair of socks.

  • There are a lot of superstitions about sports and about baseball.
  • If you are winning, you keep doing what you're doing.
  • You wear the same pair of socks.
  • If you stopped and got a glazed donut and you won, you would make sure you had a donut the next day too.
  • I know hockey players don't shave during playoffs.
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There are a lot of superstitions about sports and about baseball.

If you are winning, you keep doing what you're doing. You wear the same pair of socks. If you stopped and got a glazed donut and you won, you would make sure you had a donut the next day too.


I know hockey players don't shave during playoffs. Maybe baseball players don't change their socks. (Gross.)

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It's a sort of "you don't change horses in midstream".

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