Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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by here, it’s very inexpensive and you can sit right-right 
up close next to the action. It’s-it’s a very, very relaxed 
atmosphere.
WOMAN:
It’s great.
MAN:
Yeah, it’s a lot of fun—lot of fun.
WOMAN:
He got me addicted enough that I actually now 
go see the Iowa Cubs when I’m in Iowa in the summer, 
and I call him at night and I, we talk about minor league 
baseball. It’s great.
MAN:
Yeah. I have a-a friend who’s a hard-core sports 
fan—just about any kind of sport but especially base-
ball—and he’s gotten me into doing the 
box scores
, you 
know, and keeping track of the whole thing, and I’ve-I’ve 
sent him copies so that he can critique them and tell me 
how to do better next season.
MAN:
When I was a kid, I, uh, I, uh, um, I was essentially 
asthmatic, um, very 
asthmatic
. I-I met a guy named Steve 
Wheaton—I think he was two-two years older when-
when, me, than when I, when I was eight, he was ten—and 
he, we played baseball and, um, baseball became my life. 
Baseball still is ex—, uh, I, um, it, I was extremely good 
at baseball, uh, I still, uh, I shouldn’t say I-I am, uh, now, 
of course, but I-I-I was even, uh, some 
Detroit Tiger,
uh, 
scout
was scouting a guy that, you know, poetically, uh, 
was on the same team I was at Providence College in, uh, 
um. I only found out through my brother—I was playing 
against this guy and-and, uh, I only found out from my 
brother, from the-the-the coach that-that Detroit Tiger 
fan, uh, scout, said, “Th
at guy out there can do every-

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