Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mind begins to play tricks on you. You begin to root for balls and strikes, your strike zone shifts arbitrarily by batter, or even by pitch, and you start to make make-up calls, and then make-up make-up calls. One time I got caught dozing and a kid walloped a ball 250 feet. I looked up to see it tailing rapidly, about 15 feet above the left field foul pole. I suppose some folks would have called it a three-run homer, but I just called it a foul ball--a really loud foul ball...
...given point during the summer, you might find me dusty and sunburnt, defending my integrity to a host of complainers over a call such as that one. There's always that scrawny kid in a oversized uniform, asking me if I "need glasses." There's always that balding coach in a tank-top and Bermuda shorts, telling me I "had no angle." And there's always that prim mother in a sun dress, wondering why I won't just "let the kids play ball." Sometimes there's even a little sister with a blue popsicle tongue, declaring that I "suck...
...Mahoney argued that decisions based on racealone do not guarantee diversity. "Just because Iam a white kid from Kansas who lived on a farmdoesn't necessarily mean that I'm going torepresent the farming community," he said...
...that vacation feeling? FM recommends you still go to an occasional lecture--just work during the day and play at night. Or you can go high-ball. For all the final club kid wanna-bes out there, locate your seersucker suit and French cuffs `cause punching season starts up next week. This go round, selection is very exclusive so consider yourself honored if, next week, you end up sipping Bloody Mary's in a fenced-off garden...
...tough for a kid pitcher these days just to watch ESPN," Anaheim ace Chuck Finley said. "All they show are guys hitting balls where no one has hit them before. They show them bouncing into fountains and stuff. This is not a good time to be a bad pitcher...