Bally

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This is how a Huntington Beach boy reacts to snow.
Photo - http://collinbalester.mlblogs.com/

Collin Balester is exactly what baseball needs. He's a 6'5", 22 year old goofy kid from SoCal with a perennial big grin on his face, a complete inability to form grammatically correct sentences, and a mega-wicked fastball. Since July, 2008, he's a big league pitcher with The Washington Nationals, but you wouldn't know it if you were talking to him in a line or giving/getting directions to the closest Best Buy. His is one of the few truly interesting and very entertaining blogs written by a player, and it clearly is neither edited nor redacted by some agent, girlfriend, or lawyer. Bally seems to inherently know that baseball and life are meant to be played, not worked. Here's what Bally says he wants to hear over the stadium system next season when he walks up to the plate to hit:







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