... which (very) little joke will only be deciphered with a quick 'net lookup of the concept of hara, we suppose.

Like Gary Larson once said about one of his failed cartoons:  It's obscure, confusing, inaccessible and not very funny.  In other words, a quintessential D-O-V reference...

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Good, Bad and Ugly is a D-O-V convention from many years ago, of course ;- ) ... we mighta seen Rowdy Yates or somebody use it before we did.  But not by much.

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=== UGLY Dept. ===

THE UGLY being Cleto's consistent rep for being an "athletic" pitcher.  So was I athletic when 30 years old and 20 lbs. overweight:  athletic in the sense of having some power and some hand-eye, but not athletic in the sense of being able to control the body.

Red Bryant mighta called that athletic.  But would Ichiro have?  Or Cliff Lee?

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THE UGLY being that if Cleto doesn't get his CG track fixed, it could be four years before he's ready to go, in my humble opinion.

It's like Aumont's knee.  There's no telling how long it's going to take him to invent the alien mechanics that will allow him to compensate for the halberd-impalement on his own front leg.

Was Matt Thornton ever going to pitch well with the Mariners?  How long did they have him?  ... how long did the Sox have Matt Thornton before he started throwing strikes? 

I mean, literally.  Matt Thornton was with the Mariners for eight (8) years.   He continued to walk men in Chicago - for four (4) games.  In game five, Thornton walked nobody, and never walked people again.  The Sox stated that they fixed his mechanics by sinking his weight.

Why are "professional" pitching checkpoints in Seattle always as far away from the belly button as possible?

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No telling how long it will take Cleto to get "touch" on his control when he's moving his body like Cortez Kennedy.  Could Felix pitch if you strapped 80 lbs. onto the front of his torso?

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=== Dr's R/X ===

How do aiki shihan teach students to learn to move their CG effectively?

By being aware of it, first and foremost.

After that, there is ... getting up on your toes; sinking your weight (keep weight underside); put your consciousness into your "one-point"; organize yourself around (i.e. keep the ball close to) your focal point; etc etc.

But none of that occurs when the rule is:  the farther our clipboard checkpoint is away from the belt buckle, the more we have MLB(TM) stamped on our foreheads :- )

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Part 3

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