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But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing of a pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

Rank	Team	# in T-400	# in T-100	T-100 Rank	High Pros.	C	1B	2B	SS	3B	OF	RHP	LHP	Team Pts	Pts/Spot
1	CHC	17	7	1	14	1	2	2	3	0	5	2	2	4527	266.3
2	LAD	22	4	11	5	4	0	0	3	1	3	7	3	4058	184.5
3	BAL	16	6	2	1	1	1	2	2	1	6	1	1	4002	250.1
4	CIN	19	4	12	13	1	0	1	4	3	4	6	0	3980	209.5
5	SEA	17	6	6	30	1	2	1	6	0	6	1	0	3968	233.4
6	NYY	19	6	4	11	2	1	2	4	0	6	3	1	3811	200.6
7	TEX	18	4	10	7	0	1	2	1	0	6	8	0	3762	209.0
8	NYM	15	5	8	24	2	0	2	3	0	4	4	0	3584	238.9
9	BOS	16	3	16	22	1	0	2	4	1	4	4	0	3409	213.1
10	SD	15	6	3	21	1	1	0	2	1	3	6	1	3303	220.2
11	MIL	16	6	5	3	1	0	0	3	4	4	3	1	3276	204.8
12	WAS	15	3	13	4	0	0	0	0	2	8	3	2	3179	211.9
13	COL	16	5	9	20	2	1	1	3	1	6	1	0	3126	195.4
14	CLE	17	2	21	17	1	1	2	3	2	5	1	2	2913	171.4
15	DET	13	3	14	10	0	0	1	2	2	3	4	0	2879	221.5
16	TB	12	5	7	2	1	1	0	2	4	2	1	1	2799	233.3
17	SF	13	2	24	46	0	0	0	2	0	4	2	3	2629	202.2
18	ARI	15	2	20	9	0	1	1	3	2	6	1	1	2411	160.7
19	STL	11	3	17	33	0	0	2	1	0	2	5	1	2191	199.2
20	PIT	12	2	19	12	0	0	3	0	0	1	5	3	2078	173.2
21	MIN	11	3	15	16	0	1	1	2	0	4	3	0	2004	182.2
22	CWS	10	2	23	28	1	0	1	2	2	0	2	2	1957	195.7
23	HOU	9	0	28	110	0	0	1	1	1	5	1	0	1523	169.2
24	TOR	9	2	22	23	0	1	1	3	1	1	0	2	1521	169.0
25	PHI	8	3	18	44	0	0	0	0	1	3	3	0	1476	184.5
26	ATL	9	1	26	53	0	0	0	2	0	2	4	0	1411	156.8
27	OAK	8	1	27	79	0	0	0	3	0	2	3	0	1230	153.8
28	MIA	7	2	25	59	0	0	1	0	3	0	2	1	1151	164.4
29	KC	10	0	28	172	1	0	1	2	2	2	1	1	983	98.3
30	LAA	6	0	28	116	0	1	0	1	0	3	1	0	827	137.8

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammeled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains

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