But what's crazy about this situation is that it simply doesn't have to be this way.

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What's remarkable about this situation is that the concept of a "playoff" has never carried more cachet.

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But then, a bigger sense of realism and practicality comes forward of what do you do in this present situation that we found ourselves that's built up over 20 years?

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"It's disrespectful to the person whose property this is, and it's disrespectful to the situation of what happened to us, " said Green.

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"He said what he meant, and I'm sorry this tragedy followed him, " Lowe told CNN's The Situation Room.

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So if we look into Mervyn King's eyes and wonder what his nightmares might be, and indeed our own, it could be this: a situation where politics, economics and social unrest prove incapable of making the kind of switch that happened between 1931 and 1934.

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