[Locke]

In reality, parents should really STFU and stay the hell out of it unless they have an official capacity.

It becomes like the 'telephone' game, its hearsay and the message becomes distorted by the time it reaches the end.

What Treliving/Hartley say goes to the agent then to Sven then to parents then to a tabloid and eventually it becomes reported that Sven is hunting aliens on Neptune.

He'll play a bit in Adirondack and then he'll be back. My bet is that his name is first or second on the callup list.

I always get the impression that if management gives a rookie a vet's spot then they're going to move that vet but they're going to want something for it, and if they want to do that then that vet has to be given a chance to show their stuff.

Cyclical asset management.