euphemistic use of "exempt"

[Dan Goncharoff]

I would have expected the Giants tenancy in the Yale Bowl in the 70s would
have given them some favor among locals.
On Sep 17, 2014 8:23 PM, "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

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> On Sep 17, 2014, at 8:03 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > At 9/17/2014 07:47 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >> Bledsoe.
> >>=20
> >> --LH, Pats fan
> >=20
> > The New York--Boston sports fans' dividing line is further west than I =
> thought.
> >=20
> > Joel
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> To take baseball, there are actually surveys and maps online that, to my =
> surprise, show New Haven as being firmly in Yankees territory, with the =
> isofan being further east and north, even though my own anecdotal =
> impression over the last 10 years, based on counts of baseball caps, =
> suggests it's a lot closer split.  In my own case, I was reared as a =
> Brooklyn Dodgers fan by my Brooklynite father and spent many days at =
> Ebbets Field; when O'Malley shipped them west, I stopped being a Dodgers =
> fan but never gave up my devotion to rooting against the Yankees.  As =
> for the Pats, they are, after all, the *New England* Patriots.  I =
> suspect there may actually be a fairly close distribution of Pats vs. =
> Giants fans in this area since 2001, with Jets fans in the third =
> position corresponding to the Mets.  One independent piece of evidence =
> might be what the relevant network (CBS or FOX) affiliate does when the =
> Giants and Pats games are carried on the same network at the same time.  =
> Next Sunday, when this happens, the Connecticut CBS affiliate is =
> carrying the Pats game, but that may be influenced by the Giants already =
> being 0-2; I remember the choice going the other way in the past.=20
>
> LH
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