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The ultimate ringer: Former MLB pitcher Jeremy Hellickson helps friends on slow pitch softball team

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There was one out in the top of the fourth inning when Jordan Loebig stepped to the plate on Monday night. 

Loebig, a slugger for The Station on Ingersoll’s slow pitch softball team, had already belted two home runs in the first game of that night’s doubleheader. Not wanting to give him a shot at a third, the opposing pitcher opted for an intentional walk, loading the bases for the No. 9 hitter

This wasn’t your typical No. 9 hitter, though. Stepping to the plate was Des Moines, Iowa, native Jeremy Hellickson, who just wrapped up a long career as one of the most successful major league players to come out of Iowa. Hellickson, a right-handed pitcher, won the Rookie of the Year Award, a Gold Glove and is coming off a World Series championship season with the Washington Nationals.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2020/07/18/jeremy-hellickson-slow-pitch-softball-team/5460003002/

Dog Learns To Communicate By Using Buttons And Tells Her Owner She’s ‘Mad’ – Digg

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Stella uses an AAC device to tell her owner what she’s feeling and she talks about as well as you’d think a dog could talk.

— Read on digg.com/video/dog-learns-to-communicate-by-using-buttons-and-tells-her-owner-shes-mad

The Worst Cars I Ever Tested: A Veteran Auto Journo’s List of Most Disappointing Rides

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Early in my career, one of my editors bluntly declared: “Mate, all cars are shitboxes until proven otherwise.” Around the same time, a veteran colleague offered an alternative take: “I want every car to be great,” he said. “And I’m disappointed if they’re not.”
— Read on www.motortrend.com/news/worst-cars-tested-by-angus-mackenzie/

He Lost His Leg, Then Rediscovered the Bicycle. Now He’s Unstoppable.

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Leo Rodgers is in flight. He’s bouncing and sliding in soft sand along an abandoned railway line that runs north from downtown St. Petersburg. As we zigzag past castaway boxcars plastered with graffiti and the agitated guests at a dog kennel, Rodgers hucks his bike off every huckable curb.

Many people who ride a lot know what it’s like to sit on the wheel of someone like Leo Rodgers—someone you can trust to pick a good line and call out obstacles and do his or her share of the work and probably drop your ass if they wanted to. Someone who emanates delight. Someone who sits on a bike like that’s where they belong, their upper body still and relaxed as the miles click by.

https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a32346213/leo-rodgers-amputee-cyclist/?utm_source=digg

Human Fallibility and the Case for Robot Baseball Umpires | WIRED

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How the ‘gambler’s fallacy’ and anchoring bias influence strike zones.
— Read on www.wired.com/story/human-fallibility-case-robot-baseball-umpires/

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Check out this article from USA TODAY:

11 best Zoom tricks you’ll wish you knew sooner

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2020/05/07/tricks-and-shortcuts-enhance-your-zoom-video-conference-experience/5172186002/

Why Flori-duh? Man Landed His Car on Top of Two Others

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Why does this kind of stuff seem to always happen in Floriduh?

A traffic accident in Florida has led to one of the most confusing scenarios of 2020. On Tuesday a driver in Citrus County put their car in reverse at a high rate of speed, jumping the curb and landing on two parked cars.

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