Synergy

[riverfrontier]

We just pulled out the whisk broom on the Cards. This year's team is no longer a bobble head, it's an action figure with accessories. I'm so happy I'm gonna make a sandwich. Extra cheese. The lean times are over.

[redlegsfan21]

What exactly does synergy mean? I had never seen the term until yesterday and now I've seen in twice in as many days.

[mojorisin71]

I thought it was a misspelling of the former Riverfront Stadium.

[riverfrontier]

Funny, I always thought 'cinergy' was word play for 'synergy'. I think the word describes the act of a predator marking his territory with urine.

Or maybe it means getting things to work together. Like a team. Like a good team. Like a good team that works together to mark its territory with urine.
PEEce out, and go reds.

[redlegsfan21]

Synergy or synergism (from the Greek synergos meaning working together, circa 1660) refers to the phenomenon in which two or more discrete influences or agents acting together create an effect greater than the sum of the effects each is able to create independently. The opposite of synergy is antagonism, the phenomenon where two agents in combination have an overall effect which is less than the sum of their individual effects. Synergism stems from the 1657 theological doctrine that human will cooperates with divine grace in regeneration. The term began to be used in the broader, non-theological, sense by 1925. In the 1960s it was first used to describe supposed economies of scale in business, reappearing in the 1990s as a common business buzzword. Synergy can also mean:

A mutually advantageous conjunction where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
A dynamic state in which combined action is favored over the sum of individual component actions.
Behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately. More accurately known as emergent behavior

[riverfrontier]

I used the word in reference to this year's team. We are locked in and clicking, with greater emphasis on the result of the team, not individual stats. a wolf pack comes to mind...