<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Paul Wiggins: OK. Sussed out what Hot Stove is. At the risk of boring the rest of you, what's the origin of the name?<hr></blockquote><p>Before football became immensely popular in the U.S., and before basketball was on TV incessantly, people spent the winter around stoves, with the coming baseball season a popular topic. Anyone's team can be a contender in the Hot Stove League. <p>Of course, now people sit at home at their computers, boasting of or bemoaning their team's chances online. <p>Or, more likely, ignoring baseball.<p>Or, letting others do the prognosticating for them on shrill radio or TV talk shows.
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