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Ben, how are you?

I'm all right.

I was playing baseball this past weekend with my two going on three-year-old daughter and by baseball I mean

one of us was holding an umbrella and the other was holding a small plastic

basketball but basically baseball just throwing and hitting and she said I'll be the hitter you be

the mitter and I had never thought of that term before. Yeah.

I think she's coined a new term for a defender, fielder, why not?

Mitter.

We have hitter.

Mitter makes perfect sense because she knows that a fielder uses a mitt so why would they not be a mitter?

I think that the annoying answer to this question and first I want to acknowledge like a writer already

Ben you know that's what you have on your hands you got a writer already.

Mitter is delightful but I think I think the reason is that it sounds too much like hitter, you know, the rhymeiness of it lends itself well to song lyrics and to the adorable utterances of tiny children but might make a

broadcast for instance a little bit confusing but mitter that is that is nice you. It also kind of sounds like you're saying

Nitter, you know, I think that you want to try to avoid rhyming words in

moments like this because you got like if you have fast-paced action and by that I mean like

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