{"id":8255,"date":"2009-05-06T12:56:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T19:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8255"},"modified":"2009-05-06T13:05:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T20:05:35","slug":"the-smell-of-the-grass-the-crack-of-the-bat-the-bombs-bursting-in-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8255\/the-smell-of-the-grass-the-crack-of-the-bat-the-bombs-bursting-in-air\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smell of the Grass, The Crack of the Bat, The Bombs Bursting in Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">John McGraw and Connie Mack were talking Baseball a while back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI\u2019m looking to add some new talent\u201d McGraw told Mack.<span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThere\u2019s lots of talent around these days\u201d Mack replied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cYeah, but none of them have passion for the game anymore. They\u2019re all just Nancy boys,\u201d John said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWell, have you looked at that Cowan kid up in the Northwest league?\u201d Connie said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cYeah, he looks promising but I wonder if he has the moxie to make it here in the bigs?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWhy don\u2019t you bring him down here for spring training and see if he can hit the breaking ball?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">McGraw telegraphed Seattle asking to have Cowan sent down to Phoenix for spring training.<span> <\/span>When he got to Phoenix, Cowan was as wide-eyed as they come. He sure looked out of place down in the valley of the sun. \u201cI\u2019ve never been to big leagues spring training before\u201d he stammered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWell, just keep your eyes open and learn\u201d McGraw said. McGraw and Mack put the entire team through their paces. The practices were hard and they were long. The spring sun was a warm and welcome change from the dreary gray skies up in Seattle. Everyone at spring training worked hard and did everything the coaches had them do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There were some really talented folks. Many veterans were in camp, and they led the way. Years of experience made the veterans both savvy and polished. The rookies listened, and learned from the veterans. Soon it was obvious that McGraw and Mack had built another winner of a team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">McGraw and Mack called for Cowan after practice late one afternoon. \u201cKid, we like your style. Welcome to the show,\u201d and then they walked away. <span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Well, that\u2019s not really what happened but it sure would have been cool if it had. While down in Phoenix for Bloodhound Blog Unchained, McGraw I mean Greg, asked me to contribute here at Bloodhound Blog. I feel like a rookie who just got the call up to the &#8217;27 Yankees. The murderers\u2019 row of writing talent here is without equal. I only hope that I can carry the water for the team. What I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8255\/the-smell-of-the-grass-the-crack-of-the-bat-the-bombs-bursting-in-air\/#more-8255\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McGraw and Connie Mack were talking Baseball a while back. \u201cI\u2019m looking to add some new talent\u201d McGraw told Mack. \u201cThere\u2019s lots of talent around these days\u201d Mack replied. \u201cYeah, but none of them have passion for the game anymore. They\u2019re all just Nancy boys,\u201d John said. \u201cWell, have you looked at that Cowan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-casual-friday","7":"category-general","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10161,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10161\/atlas-twitched\/","url_meta":{"origin":8255,"position":0},"title":"Atlas Twitched?","author":"Scott Cowan","date":"October 22, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In effort to stem public outcry the government today announced that they were limiting the salaries of the top 175 executives for companies that have received federal bailout money. 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