For years, in lieu of some lame office picnic or team building exercise, the owners of the company that employs me has held our annual employee outing at the race track in Del Mar. The food and drinks are on the bosses. The gambling is not.
Free agency seems a lot like betting on horses. You pick your horse, put your money down, and see what happens. Sometimes you boom (Braves with Anibal Sanchez last year) sometimes you bust (Zack Cozart last year), and you never know how it is going to go.