"It's a code language. No one truly cares about the American League record. But a broadcaster or a headline can't say 'the real record' or 'the clean record', so we've been using this term."
“It was like dealing with a politician. He would answer the question and take it off in a tangent that had nothing to do with the question you were asking him.”
Borrell Associates projects that figure will climb considerably over the next four years as the industry undergoes what it describes as a "great reshuffling."