Word: scouting
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...Guesswork,” one regional scout for an American League team told me. “Complete guesswork.” Scouts responsible for an entire quadrant of the country can’t follow the Chris Schutts of the world around for much of the season, so this might be the only chance they get to see him in game action...
...course, maybe that’s because what’s in plain view doesn’t matter much. “Look at this guy,” a scout tells me. “Look at a guy that size and tell me if you’ve ever seen somebody in the big leagues his size do much. Maybe a lefty, fine…” Schutt, listed at 6’1 and 200 pounds, lets loose another pitch, called outside. “Most of these guys here, they’re what...
...high-tech tracking was valuable, but a recon mission would provide critical intelligence for Charlie Rock. First Sergeant William Mitchell headed out with in M-113 track along with a squad of three tanks and a scout humvee. The order was fire only if fired upon. And yet somehow, soon enough, those high-tech thermal images would become a flesh and blood enemy in a heavy exchange of fire...
...talked, couriers on motorbikes kept putting into the courtyard bearing fresh news. The Iraqis aren't even at their new front line. "There's no one there," said one scout. "They have pulled back several kilometers more, behind a big ditch," another said. "The line will be on the city limits by morning." The city is Kirkuk, just west of here, a major Kurdish city controlled by Iraq...
Playground bullies make great blockmates, at least if you ask “Jim,” the jock who guaranteed his place in a blocking group by slamming a “spindly boy scout lawyer-to-be” up against a wall. This blocking melodrama comes from an anonymous source in Fifteen Minutes’ (FM) “Blocking Confessions!” Astute enough to align with the Neanderthal in this petty scuffle, the unnamed confessor demonstrates the social savvy of a fifth-grader still bowing down to the class bully—and actually...