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“That was a clutch hit,” said the color man. “Walker hit a rocket. He really came to play. Showed mental toughness.”
Gawd, thought Dick, the play-by-play announcer, was that four in a row? Where’d they dig this guy up?
“You know all the clichés, don’t you, Ron?” Dick said during a commercial break, hoping he’d get the message.
“I call ‘em as I see ‘em,” Ron said slapping Dick on the back.
A week later, Ron was downcast. “They canned me,” he told Dick. “Said I was too trite. Can you beat that?”
“Your career just took a bad hop.”