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Saturday, June 02, 2007
A-Fraud
Someone I know was on the receiving end of a fender-bender. She tried to settle with the offending party because she felt bad for her and didn’t want her to get insurance points, but the offender’s father got in the way, and so, she had to let insurance settle it. She felt bad. So, I told her: if you really feel bad, and since the insurance company will probably pay more than what the damages really are, take the excess, and give it to the girl. She didn’t feel that bad about it. All part of the phony outrage.
When I was playing softball, our team was killing the opposition. We went around the order once already, and it was clear they weren’t in our league. When it was my turn at bat, I took a half-hearted swing, and flied out to LF. End of inning. In a later inning, a teammate hit a sure inside-the-parker, but he jogged around the bases, and stopped at 3B, even though he could walk home. These are sportsman’s-like plays.
If Joe Torre really believes what he says:
“They were angry,” Torre said. “Oh, there’s no question. I can’t say I blame them, but what are you going to do about it? What’s happened has happened.” Torre said he spoke with Rodriguez after the game.
“It’s probably something he shouldn’t have done,” Torre said. “I don’t sense he’s going to do it again.”
He should have instructed the next batter to swing at any and every offering. Oh, I see. He didn’t feel that bad about it. There was a remedy to the situation, if you really believed that something wrong happened.
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I should also add the reason that you don’t do this play. And, the Fenway fans, as you see later in the above article, show you the reason. Why is it that you call for a play? It’s so that two players don’t collide: avoid injuries. But, for now, until forever, Fenway fans will call for the ball. Runners on base will call for the ball. ARod and Jeter may end up colliding one day.
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