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<\/p>\nRufus @ 11 years.<\/p>\n
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His “Radiance” is reluctant to post on this celebratory day, so ya’ll will have to endure my brief bemoanment of America’s game.<\/p>\n
I wholeheartedly agree with Frank Deford, one is enough<\/a>. Especially in baseball, where plays<\/em> are separated by a yawning span of pitcher-catcher agreement, standing, leaning, bending, peeking (at the runner), crotch scratching (catcher), and then further pondering until, finally – throw the damn ball already!<\/em> – the pitch. Then sometimes the batter won’t swing. Or worse, the pitch isn’t even thrown! – consider the balk<\/a>. Copy paste, all over again. Is it any wonder drunkenness is rampant among the fans? When the moments of actual athleticism on the field, over the course of hours of otherwise mind-numbing nothingness, may be replayed in sixty seconds or less of real-time? And they make this spectacle of somnambulism the best of seven? Puh-leez<\/span>.<\/p>\n I will never again mock synchronized swimming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rufus @ 11 years. His “Radiance” is reluctant to post on this celebratory day, so ya’ll will have to endure my brief bemoanment of America’s game. I wholeheartedly agree with Frank Deford, one is enough. 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