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He returned to the Red Sox in 2020 after a sign-stealing scandal with the Astros had him suspended.
Alex Cora.
The Police: "Oh, can't you see you belong to me".
Every Breath you Take.
Wheel! Of! Mis-fortune! PBS noted if you bet $100 an hour on this game, you'd lose an average of $5.26 an hour over time.
Roulette.
In most cases, if a year can be divided by this number, it'll be a leap year.
4. (366 days)
a building or outdoor area in which plays and other dramatic performances are given.
Theater.
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In 2017 this ex-Yankee shortstop was part of a group that paid $1.2 billion to buy the Marlins.
Derek Jeter.
Madonna: "'Cause the boy with the cold hard cash is always Mr. Right".
Material Girl.
Life was a bowl of cherries when a Vegas man won $4.6 million & years later, $21.1 million on a Megabucks one of these.
Slot Machine.
Nothing in the sky has a cycle of this duration; it came from the Jews observing a day of rest.
7 Days (a week)
one of a number of projecting pieces of metal, rubber, or other material on the sole of a shoe, designed to prevent the wearer from losing their footing.
Cleat.
Oops...Mets owners invested $500 mil.--a ballpark figure--with this man, whose Ponzi scheme struck out in 2008.
Bernie Madoff.
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts: "I saw him dancin' there by the record machine".
I love Rock & Roll.
Somehow this game even makes the concept of insurance exciting; splitting may also play a key role.
It's the length of a senator's term.
6 years.
the belief that the universe and living organisms originate from specific acts of divine creation, as in the biblical account, rather than by natural processes such as evolution.
Creationism.
BACKUP QUESTION: [ON THE MAP]: 9-letter name for an area of 10 million square miles--4/5 the size of Africa--but only about 120,000 square miles of it is dry land.
Polynesia.
Ted Turner was quoted, "I bought" this team "because I'm tired of seeing them kicked around" (& wanted to put them on TBS).
Bruce Springsteen: "I'm ten years burning down the road".
Born in the U.S.A
The race & sports book has special cards to let you do this to your winnings, plow them right into the next wager.
Parlay (or Let it ride)
A 1945 Sartre novel set in 1938, or a nickname for the 18th century.
"The Age of Reason."
a warning or proviso of specific stipulations, conditions, or limitations.
Caveat.
Praying at Brooklyn's Plymouth Church helped this Dodgers general manager decide to take a big step and integrate baseball with Jackie Robinson.
Janet Jackson: "No, my first name ain't baby, it's Janet".
Nasty.
One joker is added to a 52-card deck & may be used to complete any flush or a straight in this Asian type of poker.
Pai Gow.
Called "time's arrow", it's a measure of disorder in a system.
Entropy.
a compound formed in protein metabolism and present in much living tissue. It is involved in the supply of energy for muscular contraction.
Creatine.
[WORD ORIGINS]: Meaning cobbled together, it once referred to a temporary fix replacing a broken mast on a ship.
Jury-Rigged or Jerry-Rigged.