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The restrictions felt similar to the thinking that limits most current major league starters to around one hundred pitches: a guess.
But some of why the 100 pitch per game thing exists has to do with performance and is very much not a guess.
“So much of one's life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone.”
― The Art of Fielding
― The Art of Fielding
“The world is made of stuff and that stuff behaves in certain predictable ways; if you master the rules, you master the stuff.”
― Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
― Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
“He hasn’t realized yet that you can’t outrun this game. There is no clock, there are only outs, and outs are precious things. As long as you have outs, you have life.”
― Hang A Crooked Number
― Hang A Crooked Number
“Building stuff was an ethical act, a way to become more fully human.”
― Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
― Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
“Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it could happen with blindfolds in a time warp plus amnesia”
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
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