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warped sense of safety

I saw this in the paper today:
“Chicago’s Frank Thomas reached base safely in his 24th consecutive game
when he was hit by a pitch in the eighth”

“reached base safely” and “hit by a pitch” should not be in the same sentence

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2 Responses to “warped sense of safety”

  1. Em Says:
    June 18th, 2004 at 12:13 pm

    I had to read that four times in order to understand it…but I concur.

  2. minorthird Says:
    June 18th, 2004 at 12:18 pm

    yeah…it looks like I forgot the word “base” in the quote…

    all fixed

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