“I told you.\u00a0 I’m not playing unless my side gets four outs.\u00a0 It’s my ball, anyway.\u00a0 I’ll just go home and take my ball with me.\u00a0 Then no one can play.\u00a0 Is that what you want?”<\/p>\n
“Aw, come on, Johnny.\u00a0 No one gets four outs.\u00a0 You can’t just change the rules.\u00a0 This is baseball.\u00a0 Come on, we’re all here to play.\u00a0 Let’s just play.”<\/p>\n
“No.\u00a0 I told you.\u00a0 Four outs for my team.”<\/p>\n
“Geez!\u00a0 What is it with you?\u00a0 You know I’m not going to say yes to that!\u00a0 It’s not fair!”<\/p>\n
“You didn’t ask your team yet.\u00a0 I say, four outs for our side or else no one plays.\u00a0 Ask the rest of your team.”<\/p>\n
“Okay, okay, what a dork.\u00a0 Okay, you heard him, what do you guys say to four outs for Johnny’s team?\u00a0 There you go.\u00a0 They all say no.\u00a0 Now come on, don’t be dumb, let’s play.”<\/p>\n
“How about this then.\u00a0 We’ll play if you give us four outs an inning for this game, and we can decide about the next game later.”<\/p>\n
“But that’s the same thing!\u00a0 Johnny, you’re just wasting our time.\u00a0 Let’s play by the rules.\u00a0 We can’t just change the rules of baseball for you.\u00a0 If we do it now, next time you’ll want five outs!”<\/p>\n
“You know what?\u00a0 You’re the one who doesn’t want to play.\u00a0 You won’t give up anything.\u00a0 All we wanted was four outs an inning, just for this game, and now you’re going to spoil it for everyone.\u00a0 You’re just being stubborn.\u00a0 Everyone here wants to play ball and you’re the reason we’re not playing.”<\/p>\n
“This is crazy!\u00a0 What’s the point playing baseball if we don’t play by baseball rules?”<\/p>\n
“I’m waaay-tinnnnng.”<\/p>\n
“No!\u00a0 Johnny, this is making you look stupid.\u00a0 There’s no point in talking about this.”<\/p>\n
“Who are you calling stupid?\u00a0 Now you don’t want to talk.\u00a0 You just care about winning.\u00a0 Boy, this is some damn game!\u00a0 Lookit, your team doesn\u2019t want to cancel the game and neither do I.\u00a0 All we\u2019re asking is to sit down and have a discussion and then play the game.\u00a0 Simple as that.\u00a0 But it all has to begin with a simple discussion.\u00a0\u00a0 And you won’t even talk.\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 Come on guys, let’s go home.”<\/p>\n
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“I told you.\u00a0 I’m not playing unless my side gets four outs.\u00a0 It’s my ball, anyway.\u00a0 I’ll just go home and take my ball with me.\u00a0 Then no one can play.\u00a0 Is that what you want?” “Aw, come on, Johnny.\u00a0 … Continue reading