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>10 quick thoughts on things I like about baseball. Tamar can surely add to the list.
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>1. A triple, the most electrifying play in baseball. Home runs are fascist in comparison.
>2. The cat and mouse game between a pitcher and a base stealing threat on first base.
>3. A double play turned by the real pros, so fast you can hardly follow it.
>4. A batter trying to leg a double into a triple and the relay throw to third. And the umpire signals! --
>5. A batter staying alive against a pitcher who has his best stuff going by fouling off pitch after pitch.
>6. A manager trying to buy time for his reliever to warm up by standing around the mound until the umpire comes out and breaks it up.
>7. Mariano Rivera. You can add any number of great players to this list; it's just that Mariano is the best relief pitcher the game has ever seen and is nearing the end of the road. He is the son of a fisherman and approaches every appearance with an almost eerie detachment. He might have been a great assassin if he hadn't been blessed with his right arm.
>8. A bloop double that no one can quite get to. It's a reminder that life is not always fair. One guy can knock the cover off the ball and have it caught by an outfielder 400 feet away and another gets if off the end of the bat and it's a double in the box score.
>9. The 7th inning stretch.
>10. An infielder holding one or two fingers up to the outfielders to let them know how many outs there are. Like they don't know.
>11. Kids standing next to major league players during the playing of the National Anthem. Can you imagine how that feels to a 10 year old?
>12. A pitcher who has his cutter going so it's like falling off a table at the end, making big league batters look foolish.
>13. Payback by batters on pitchers -- "It's deep and I don't think it's playable."
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>I have exceeded my 10 and could add a hundred more. I love this game.

14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfAFLRv7ZEs

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