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Goalie

Published on Aug 29, 2009

For more than 40 years I have firmly maintained that goalies are not soccer players! At best they are semi-conscious glove wearers that play at playing the game.

“Hey batter, batter, batter, batter, batter, batter, batter, batter, ssswing batter. He can’t hit it, he can’t hit it, he can’t hit it, he can’t hit it, ssswing batter.” This chant, used to entice opposing hitters to swing at bad pitches, makes sense in the context of the game. It’s good for your team when the opposition batter swings at a poor pitch, and it’s bad for them. Swinging at a good pitch, and laying off a bad pitch, is basic, top-notch baseball dogma, a dictate that flows from the time honored history of the game. Sadly it is ignored...