Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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body does their part, everybody doesn’t have to score, 
everybody doesn’t have to be the guy who runs the whole 
length of the game. You know, you just do your part. You 
might be the guy that just picks up for that superstar who 
gets tired. You give him a break so he can continue to be 
a superstar, the support team.
7. BASEBALL STRATEGY 
MAN:
To the casual observer, it takes forever and noth-
ing really happens and it’s not very interesting. Uh, but if 
you follow it and you kind of pay attention to the strategy 
that’s going on, then it’s an interesting mix of, uh, ath-
leticism and that ability, but also, this mind game. And 
at its peak, you can sit there either watching the TV or 
watching a, at the game, and you can watch the mind 
game between the pitcher and the batter. Uh, we used to 
watch, and this is when—I laugh because this is when I 
knew my wife really had been totally hooked—when, uh, 
last year when Daryle Ward was, uh, playing fi rst base a 
little bit with the 
Nationals
and he was a, he was a bat-
ter that 
fouled off 
a lot of ba—, a lot of pitches, and you 
would just, you could, it was like watching a soap opera 
just for that 
at bat
. You know, where the, what the pitch 
was gonna be, and he would 
fi ght it off 
and he’d kind of 
stare down
the pitcher a little bit, and the pitcher would 
stare him down a little bit. It was just this great 
mind 
game
that plays out in turns rather than all at once, so 
it kind of gives you that chance to sit back and watch it 
all unfold, um, rather than other sports like football or 
basketball that it’s all kind of a 
rush
and it happens right 
there. Uh, maybe I’d understand the strategy more if I 
knew more about those sports, but, uh, but that’s what I 
love about baseball.

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