However, while rules provide structure and an even playing field for competition, they do not enforce themselves. This means that rules-based competition first requires us to come together around voluntarily agreed-upon principles. Red Sox and Yankee fans don’t see eye to eye on much, especially with a few beers in them, but both will tell you a pitch down the middle is a strike, a pitch into the stands is a ball, and a pitch at a batter’s head is grounds for ejection. If the Yankees applied one set of rules to themselves but enforced a different set of rules for their opponents, genuine
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