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a list pretending it's a strategy until someone gets injured
means A list of people and their assigned duties, turns, or positions — who's doing what, and when.
from From the Dutch 'rooster,' meaning a gridiron or grate — the kind of crisscrossing iron bars you'd cook over. Because ruled paper laid out in lines and squares looked just like that grid, the Dutch borrowed the word for any table or schedule drawn in such a grid. English picked it up around the early 18th century, and the gridiron quietly became a list of names.
- naval roots
- from Dutch rooster, meaning a gridiron grill pattern
- grid logic
- named for the grid lines tables once resembled
- sports gospel
- NFL teams trim rosters to exactly 53 players
- hidden cuts
- making the roster means surviving everyone who didn't
- double duty
- also a verb: to schedule someone for work
new york yankees 2009 — 26-player world series championship squad including derek jeter, alex rodriguez, hideki matsui
golden state warriors 2016-17 — 15-player nba roster with stephen curry, kevin durant, klay thompson, draymond green
brazil 2002 world cup — 23-player squad that won the fifa world cup in south korea/japan with ronaldo, ronaldinho, pelé's era