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MBB: Looking fastball.

(GP): Yes, and then you ground out to the second baseman and you’re walking back to the dugout saying, “You idiot. Why did you swing at that pitch?”.

You leave that pitch alone, maybeen its 3-0 maybeen its 2-1. Maybeen that 3-1 is not a ball and you walked. Now you wait until it’ 3-2. Now I’m either going to walk or I’m going to put the ball in play. You might strike out. You got two good things that can happen and only one bad one. its in my favor.

That’s what happened. I started getting more serious about when I should and when I shouldn’t swing.

MBB: Twenty-twenty hindsight…why couldn’t Vada have come over and told you that years earlier? acoustic electric guitar guitar string
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(GP): Vada was probably the closest (thing for me) having a hitting instructor who aimed me at figuring out how to do things left-handed. Until then, it was just athletic ability, but not trained. I had no idea what I was really doing. I wish I had found out earlier; if someone had just told me to go back before you go forward, so you can recognize the pitch and do more with it…
Back then the common theory was “stay back”. I’m staying back. But then what do you do? You launch yourself forward. As I said, you have to go back before you go forward.

Right-handed, I did that, but I had learned to do it trial and error from Little League onward. It was a natural thing.

Take a quick look at the BB walks and on-base percentage column in Pettis’ line above. Learning plate discipline is not normally soemthing that comes later in a player’s career, and its usually self-taught, a technique the smarter ones latch on to so they can extend their career, powered by years of observation and advertent or inadvertent study. Pettis, though, ran into a fellow Centerfielder who had been a very good offensive player and they worked out a new approach to the switch-hitter’s approach when he was batting left-handed.

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—– Must-read: George Will writes “The Case for Conservatism” - which makes me long for an honest-to-goodness real conservative president and Congress. Sigh …

—– Why oh why has the media virtually ignored the story of the AQ torture chamber found in Iraq? Maybe because they’d rather focus on how ‘evil’ our troops supposedly are rather than the real evil that those troops are combatting in Iraq?

—– Interesting: According to former Kerry strategist Bob Shrum, Kerry has since said that he regrets having picked John Edwards as a running mate in 2004.
I had some chicken going begging here, so I decided to make some chicken kabobs on the grill. Since the boys don’t like much of anything with or on their meat, that kind of limited what I could thread on the kabobs. They figured the green peppers were big enough to pull off and put in my plate. I promised them that the grilled green peppers would not jump over on the chicken and change the taste.

The chicken kabobs turned out good. I just used a basic homemade style Italian dressing to soak them a couple of hours before tossing them on the grill.

One thing I’d say about kabobs is that it sure would take a lot of them to fill a body (especially boy bodies) up. You can’t jam them too tight or they don’t cook even. With the food spread out over the kabobs, there’s really not much on each kabob.
—– Senator Sam Brownback gives his thoughts on evolution in the NYT? Ooookay.
Did I hear “check you for ticks”? No, I must have just heard wrong.

cause I’d like to see you out in the moonlight
I’d like to kiss you way back in the sticks
I’d like to walk you through a field of wildflowers

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Donuts - Donuts
abandonware - abandonware

and I’d like to check you for ticks oooh you never know where one might be
and oooh theres lots of places that are hard to reach

No, clearly, “Check you for ticks”. Maybe it was an ad, maybe for Frontline or some other product, because it must be about some old boy and his dawg and it’s kind of cleverish, in a wink, wink “It sounds like I’m talkin’ about my girl, but I’m really talkin’ about my dawg” way. Dogs do not commonly drink from beer bottles or have slutty peek-a-boo tats on their lower backs, but…

I’d like to see you out in the moonlight
I’d like to kiss you way back in the sticks
I’d like to walk you through a field of wildflowers
and I’d like to check you for ticks
—– Great news for Democrats: The economy “slowed” in the first quarter - the worst quarter in four years.

—– Former FBI director Louis Freeh is endorsing former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani.

—– Yawn alert: “Outed” former CIA agent Valerie Plame is suing the CIA, accusing them of “unconstitutionally interfering with publication of her memoir.”

When oh when will this story go away?

—– Congrats to ST reader Karl, who passed the 100,000th visit mark on his blog on Tuesday. Way to go, Karl! Keep up the great work.

—- Last but not least, the Rev. Billy Graham’s library was dedicated here in Charlotte today, and included in that dedication were all sorts of well-known public figures including former presidents Bush, Clinton, and Carter. I can’t wait to visit the library. Bush got a little teary-eyed talking about Graham.