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WordUpThome:
I LIKE YOUR BUSH |
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finch_windmill:
What?? |

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WordUpThome: 
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finch_windmill:
Oh :) That's not a bush, that's my olive leaf wreath I wore when I
got my gold medal. |
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WordUpThome:
I WONDER WHAT ITS LIKE TO WIN THE BIG ONE. I TRY SO HARD EVERY YEAR.
SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE I LET MY TEAM DOWN. |
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finch_windmill:
You've never won the World Series? |
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WordUpThome:
I PLAY FOR THE PHILLIES. |
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WordUpThome:
I WAS THERE TWICE. WITH THE INDIANS, 1995 AND 1997. I HIT A
HOMERUN IN 95, BUT WE LOST TO THE BRAVES. SO I HIT TWO HOMERUNS IN 1997. BUT
WE STILL LOST. |
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finch_windmill:
That's so sad. |
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WordUpThome:
DONT FEEL SAD LITTLE LADY. WHEN THE PHILLIES REACH THE TOP OF THE
MOUNTAIN I WILL HIT THREE HOMERUNS. THERE IS NO WAY WE CAN LOSE. |
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finch_windmill:
There you go, that's the spirit :) |
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WordUpThome:
SOMETIMES I WISH I'D NEVER LEFT CLEVELAND. I LEFT SO MUCH THERE.
BUT, IN A WAY, PHILADELPHIA HAS GIVEN ME JUST AS MUCH. |
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WordUpThome:
SOME DAYS YOU HAVE TO WAKE UP AND HIT THAT HOMERUN, NO MATTER WHAT LETTER
GOD PUTS ON YOUR HAT. |
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finch_windmill:
I've never met anyone like you. Who thinks the way you do. |
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WordUpThome:
IT'S EASIER THAN WHISTLING DICKS. |

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WordUpThome:
LET ME SHOW YOU A PICTURE. 
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WordUpThome:
THAT'S MY FRIEND TREVOR. HE WAS DYING AND WANTED HIS PICTURE TAKEN
WITH ME. I ASKED HIM IF HE WANTED PETE IN THE PICTURE BUT HE DID NOT KNOW WHO PETE
WAS. |
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WordUpThome:
THINK ABOUT IT. YOU ARE DYING AND THE FIRST THING THAT COMES TO MIND
IS 'I WANT TO TAKE MY PICTURE WITH JIM THOME.' |
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WordUpThome:
BIG-BELLIED SLUMPING JIM THOME. WHO PLAYS FOR THE PHILLIES. WHO
HAS PEE ON HIS HAT. |
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finch_windmill:
oh... |
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WordUpThome:
HEY DON'T FEEL BAD. I PRAYED THAT TREVOR COULD HAVE A SOUPED UP
JETSKI IN HEAVEN BECAUSE I THINK JETSKIS ARE BOSS. JESUS AND I ARE LIKE CROSSED
FINGERS. |
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WordUpThome:
I CAN'T THINK OF ANY OTHER KIDS WHO HAVE A SKY-DOO. |
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finch_windmill:
That's the sweetest thing I've ever heard in my entire life. You've
got me crying over here, Jim. :( |
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WordUpThome:
I HAVE ALSO SERVED AS CO-CHAIRMAN OF THE UNITED WAY SOFTBALL SLAM FOR MANY
YEARS. THE OTHER CHAIRMEN HAD TO GET USED TO ME BECAUSE I SPEAK IN A LOUD VOICE. |
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WordUpThome:
SO YOU CAN SEE HOW I HAVE A SOFTENED SPOT FOR SOFTBALL PLAYERS. |
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finch_windmill:
See, there's no way somebody like you could be on steroids. |
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WordUpThome:
WAIT WHAT |
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finch_windmill:
Oh it's nothing. All of my friends just think you're on steroids.
I can't wait to tell them all the things you've done, it'll really shut them up.
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WordUpThome:
YOU NEEDED ME TO TELL YOU THAT I DID NICE THINGS BEFORE YOU KNEW I WASN'T
ON STEROIDS |
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finch_windmill:
Well, no, I assumed that you... |
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WordUpThome:
ASSUMED MY ROSEY RED BEHIND. HOW COULD YOU THINK I WAS ON STEROIDS.
I'M JI |
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WordUpThome:
JIM THOME |
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finch_windmill:
Jim, I didn't say you did steroids. All of my friends on the team
were telling me that you did because |
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WordUpThome:
DO YOU KNOW WHAT |
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WordUpThome:
I DON'T CARE WHY. I HAVE HAD MY "PHIL." GOOD DAY,
LITTLE LADY. |
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finch_windmill:
because they were jealous that I'd started to really care about you. :( |