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Small-town newspaper claims switch pitcher Pat Venditte is 'amphibious'
Sports Illustrated ^ | June 9, 2015 | Extra Mustard

Posted on 06/09/2015 11:03:08 AM PDT by EveningStar

Pat Venditte, the Oakland Athletics' switch-pitching sensation, has the ability to live on land and in water, according to the East Oregonian.

The little paper published out of Pendleton, Oregon, ran a headline on a story about Venditte touting him as "amphibious" rather than ambidextrous.

(Excerpt) Read more at si.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; Sports; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 1; ambidextrous; amphibious; baseball; eastoregonian; mlb; oaklandathletics; patvenditte; pitcher; switchpitcher; venditte
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1 posted on 06/09/2015 11:03:08 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro

ping


2 posted on 06/09/2015 11:03:47 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: humblegunner

yeah, the word kinda sounds like that, so close enough...


3 posted on 06/09/2015 11:03:59 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: EveningStar
The little paper published out of Pendleton, Oregon, ran a headline on a story about Venditte touting him as "amphibious" rather than ambidextrous.

Venditte has had it up to his gills with comments like this.

4 posted on 06/09/2015 11:06:06 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: thackney

Must be related to Syd Finch.


5 posted on 06/09/2015 11:06:08 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liawatha, because we need to beat a real commie, not a criminal posing as one.)
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To: EveningStar

Public school fail.Again.


6 posted on 06/09/2015 11:06:40 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: EveningStar

He could be “amphibious.” Who are we to judge?


7 posted on 06/09/2015 11:06:55 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: EveningStar

Damn auto-correct. LOL


8 posted on 06/09/2015 11:07:40 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: EveningStar

armphibious gets 18 hits on google. Is that it?


9 posted on 06/09/2015 11:08:08 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Alex Murphy

You were fishing for a place to hook that.

Did you think we were going to fall for it hook, line and sinker?

It’s a whale of a story; on any scale.


10 posted on 06/09/2015 11:08:26 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: EveningStar

I thought that the Deep Ones usually stayed around Innsmouth.


11 posted on 06/09/2015 11:09:16 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://www.hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook ID: Hopalong Ginsberg)
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To: Alex Murphy

I heard he was damn bibulous!


12 posted on 06/09/2015 11:09:43 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: EveningStar

One of the jobs that went away early at newspapers was the copy editor with the thought that the spell-checker could handle it. It’s gotten so bad that the local editorial cartoonist had to pull last Friday’s cartoon on Caitlyn “Balls” Jenner when I wrote an online response pointing out his error on the oft-quoted lie about women being paid 78% of men’s salary. He wrote it as “78% less than a man” rather than “78% of a man.” A competent editor would not have allowed that to be published but the magic of electrons allowed it to be pulled after I called him on it. Felt pretty good, too.


13 posted on 06/09/2015 11:12:53 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: thackney

The Lizard People are very real.

And reptiles.. but it’s close enough.


14 posted on 06/09/2015 11:14:34 AM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: EveningStar

He’s a switch? Is he on the next cover of Vanity Fair?


15 posted on 06/09/2015 11:25:00 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: EveningStar

Could have been worse:

“Androgynous”
or,
“Bituminous”
or,
“ambidoxtrious”


16 posted on 06/09/2015 11:25:27 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: EveningStar
Dang that spell check!


17 posted on 06/09/2015 11:32:33 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: SaveFerris

I think it’s time to cut bait on all the puns. FR isn’t some fish wrap, we have standards here.


18 posted on 06/09/2015 11:34:22 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: FourtySeven

I just wanted to be part of the group(er).

Amphibious people are born that way!


19 posted on 06/09/2015 11:38:52 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: EveningStar

Plagiarism of a Yogi Berraism?


20 posted on 06/09/2015 11:42:06 AM PDT by buckalfa (I am feeling much better now.)
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