I have been planning to write a column on Spitting & Baseball for some time now, but after watching this evening’s game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Los Angeles Angels (TB 4 LA 2) the spitting issue seemed to come more into focus.

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I live in one of the worst places to be when a tropical storm approaches, a barrier reef in the Gulf of Mexico.
They built up my expectations as Fay approached, as they always do when a tropical storm forms and heads towards Florida.

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“I’ll have a Tanqueray gin on the rocks.”
“How would you like your ice?” Fragmented, nugget or cubed, shaved, dimpled on the ends with or without bubbles or mystically clear?”
“Hell, my friend, I just want a drink that’s cold . . . I don’t want to buy a tie.”

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Obama’s low-key master strategist David Plouffe sat alongside Barack on the recent flight to the Middle East and said, “Barack I have a Wailing Wall of an idea.  Now with all that you have on your plate for this trip, I don’t want you to take your eye off the ball, but believe me this little [...]

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The other day a friend stopped by and commented that her grandson was a real whiner.

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It’s about 3 AM now when I’m writing this piece because I can’t sleep.
It all started about 1:30AM when I mistakenly turned over during a sound sleep.
My wife said to me, “did you hear that?”
“Did I hear what?”
“That beep.”
“What beep?”
“Listen.”

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Ossie the Osprey flew into an island of mangroves in Lemon Bay and settled down alongside Woody the Wood Stork.
“Hey, Ossie what have you been up to?”
“Oh, I’ve just been flying around trying to get away from the old lady.”
“Where you hanging out these days?”
“Oh, we’re down at the Storknest on Manasota Key.”

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As you might imagine, I wasn’t too happy Sunday reading a New York Times story with the headline, “In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop.”

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I always wondered where men’s sexual drive and financial acumen was located.
Now I know, as a result of a new study involving some 15 heterosexual young men at Stanford University. 
I always thought it was a lot lower in the male anatomy, but it’s actually located in the sex and money hub, the V-shaped nucleus accumbens, which sits [...]

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Hillary Clinton’s making a lot about taking a telephone call at 3 AM and I didn’t even know it was an issue in this Presidential campaign.

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