<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>I remember a great Royko column that worked the baseball cliches really well.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S®6 active, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Blocker, Mark B. via Announce" <announce@usml.net> </div><div>Date: 9/5/18 8:04 PM (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: USML Announcements <announce@usml.net> </div><div>Cc: "Blocker, Mark B." <mblocker@sidley.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Fwd: fun on sports cliches:) </div><div><br></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D">Very fun. Here’s another from a college friend who roots for the Red Sox. It’s about the unique vocab used by Boston announcer Dennis Eckersley.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">From my lovely wife, and indeed a good read.<o:p></o:p></p>
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