When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance of an outfield-hit ball.
I hate being out there with those garbage men. They don't get you the ball.
Chefs don't actually say 'That's a spicy meat-a-ball,' except to indicate that there's a bomb threat in the restaurant without alarming the customers. Terrorism is the spiciest meatball there is.
It's very rare that you just get stuck with the ball. You're going to get somebody open.
It's hard to field the ball when you have both hands around your throat.
One of the things you have to learn is that you don't have to have the ball all the time to be effective.