Since the Yankees had twice left the bases loaded in extra innings, maybe the odds were in their favor with Giambi.
Vitali Klitschko, the WBC champion, and the man Haye challenged to a contest minutes after he had twice left Chisora splayed on the canvas here, cannot fail to have taken notice of how the 31-year-old performed a little over a year since Haye was beaten by the Ukrainian's younger brother, Wladimir, on an equally rain-soaked night in Hamburg.
Warren knows how difficult the Klitschkos can be to do business with, Wladimir having twice left Chisora at the altar, which steered the Londoner into the arms of his older brother, Vitali, who is now in boxing limbo as he prepares to run for the presidency of Ukraine.
That's not too bad for a company that has twice been left for dead.
Eye-watering, some might call it, for a player who has twice threatened to leave the club, and at the start of the season was clearly interested in Chelsea.
It had already twice left its anchorage and returned because of reports of Nationalist ships and submarines lying in wait outside Santander, the Republican-held port where it was supposed to deliver its cargo of 10,000 tons of aviation fuel.
If someone has been asked twice, leave it, ask them a few days later, and if they fail to do so, let it go.
Her ever more exhausted and worn-down appearance towards the end of that 22-year stint was probably, in retrospect, a sign of the terminal cancer diagnosed soon after her retirement from Albert Square: she had twice previously taken leave to be treated for breast cancer.
Whatever your answer, the ABS's refusal to engage in a public process and the hasty and secretive implementation of proposals that have twice previously been rejected, has left people standing against this proposal with little recourse aside from civil disobedience.
