Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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cheaper seats, uh, you can’t really see so much of the stuff
that 
colors the game
, which is why I think sitting, you 
know, 
dead center
at 
RFK
is less exciting.
INTERVIEWER:
Uh, if you could play, what position would 
you play and why?
MAN:
If I could play. Uh, we used to play a game, one 
of, friend at work had a thing where if you could, dur-
ing the Olympics, they would ask that, like, you know, if 
you could do any one sport in this, in the Olympics, you 
know, which would it be? Um, and I think I decided on, I 
think he had decided on moguls. I had decided on some-
thing else, I forget what. It was a skiing event, though. 
Uh, in baseball, if I could do one thing and why, uh, as a 
kid, I wanted to be a 
pitcher
. And why, I don’t know but 
it-it’s just such a crazy, ridiculous thing to do or be good 
at, to take this little thing and make it move in unpre-
dictable ways to try to get it past some other guy. Uh, 
it-it’s, that’s a, that’s another aspect of baseball that I just 
think is-is so bizarre. Um, you know, the ball is so small 
and it just, you know, to throw it ninety feet and have 
it do these crazy things and have some guy with a bat 
trying to hit it is just such a bizarre thing, uh, and then 
something that, uh, some, you know, in a sport where, 
if you succeed slightly more than a quarter of the time, 
you’re really good, is just, uh, I love that.
DEFINITIONS
asthmatic:
Suff ering from asthma, a respiratory ailment 
characterized by wheezing and diffi
culty breathing due 
to infl ammation and constriction of air passages in the 
lungs.

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