"Not only did we have to beat all those other teams, we had to overcome the bad bounces, the hot goaltender, the injuries, the bad calls from the refs -- all the things that can beat you".
Economists are in the dog house after a succession of bad calls, from the failure to spot the 2008 banking crash to the impact of the Brexit vote, which many said would be terrible and has so far only dented growth.
Even Mets catcher Henry Blanco, who had a vested interest otherwise, had to admit that Ishikawa was safe and that Cuzzi's bad call saved the Mets from what should have been a crushing defeat.
"It's a debriefing from a messed-up scene, from a bad call," said Halstead, a 48-year veteran of firefighting who, since 1978, has been chief of the volunteer company, speaking Friday at his desk at the station.
In his debut last Monday, DeSalvo pitched seven innings against the Mariners and gave a one-run lead to the relievers, who blew the game with help from a bad call by an umpire.
It was a kind of death spiral: the stress from his bad call seems to have taken its toll on the relationship between Gross and his heir apparent, Mohamed El-Erian.
This is as bizarre as it sounds, especially when you consider that an individual investment adviser might cause harm to perhaps a handful of people, while thousands could suffer from a bad call by an exempt "accredited" pension or endowment fund trustee.
"That was a bad call on his part, but he knows right from wrong," she said.
Making the conscious choice to eliminate that from daily life isn't such a bad call.
