Just as expansion has diluted major league baseball talent, the people who police casinos fret that as legal gambling proliferates, professional sharpies will find the new establishments an easy mark.

A Torrent of Runs If any holdouts remain from the view that expansion has drastically diluted major league pitching, it's time to become a believer.

Dryden said the Europeans brought better tactics and new talent into the league, but he also said that expansion of the N.H.L. has diluted the gene pool.

Would expansion dilute the effectiveness of the alliance?

Cricket expert Mark Waugh commented on Fox Sports that an expansion could dilute the player pool resulting in a sub-standard league.

The problem is just more dramatic now because expansion has further diluted the quarterback talent pool.

This solved the monopole problem, since the expansion dilutes the monopole density.

She said that the expansion of the plaza in formal materials and design would dilute the character of the monument itself.

Hitters are bigger and stronger, parks are smaller and expansion has diluted the pitching.

On the contrary: expansion dilutes the TV money.