One of the most quoted lines in the movie "Moneyball" is when the Ron Washington character says to the Scott Hatteberg character, about playing first base, that "it's incredibly hard." That line resonates because: 1. Washington is using blunt terms to cut through the BS that Billy Beane is attempting to lay on a reluctant Hatteberg in order to get him to sign and play first. 2. Baseball is hard. We want it to be hard. We watch it because it's hard. We know it's hard because we played it and at some point, long before getting even close to a pro career, we gave it up because it was too hard. Also we know it's hard because people in major league baseball say it's hard all the time. Sometimes a player will say about some superstar, "He makes it look easy." Implied in that phrase is that for the rest of them, a whole bunch of them, the game is freaking hard . This brings me to the Home Run Derby. I didn't watch it. I haven...
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