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“Now, we were in the ballgame, it wasn’t in another ballpark,” Cronin said, “but we were trying to get guys to gravitate toward what we were trying to build to get back into the tournament.”

“It wasn’t so hard last year. You’re trying to win every ballgame.”

So, accustomed to a regular paycheck from gainful employment for the previous 28 years, I was now a start-up, spelling a whole new ballgame.

At one point, as Moseby is desperate to avoid confronting his wife over her infidelity, he glumly watches a ballgame on TV.

Nobody is more experienced at calling ballgames than Al Michaels — Do you believe in sphericals? — but he doesn’t construct his own boards.