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Oh, and welcome to episode 1890 of Infected for a while the Fangirlass baseball podcast

brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm a rally of Fangirlass and I am joined

as always by Ben Limberg of the Ring ARP. Ben, how are you?

If, as you maintain Dottie in a league of their own, drop the ball on purpose. I ask you,

ladies and gentlemen of the jury, why did she go out to the mound before the played appearance

with Kit to call for high fastballs because, and I quote, she can't hit them, can't lay

off them. What happened in between that mound conference and the collision at home plate

to change her heart such that she would go from advocating throwing pitches that she

knows her sister can't hit to then taking pity on her and rolling over.

I don't know.

That seems to be the strongest argument in the paper of didn't drop the ball on purpose.

I think so at least. That's persuasive.

You could say she beat her at her own game. She threw the high fastballs. She didn't lay

off them, but she did hit them. So she had grown as a player. She had proved herself.

She belongs. She stood up. She answered the challenge. And therefore she is worthy of

scoring and of daddy pretending to have dropped the ball. I guess that is one possible interpretation.

That is an interpretation. Yeah. One could one could engage with that if they wanted to.

Yeah.

I will say the creators of Oleg of their own the TV series, I believe have come out in

favor of daddy did not drop the ball on purpose. Now that's not canonical. Their opinion

carries no more weight about what happened in the movie than ours does, but I was happy

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