[Orange1998]

the team sponsored a ``date the player" auction for female fans. Some men wanted to bid for the players, too -- mostly to take them out to bars, Conley said -- and the team decided to let them participate. ``It was `take a player out on a date' -- it didn't say it had to be a serious date," Conley said.

[johniegrad]

What is the difference between a date and a serious date for this kind of guy? This is wide open for Clintonian parsing.