39 nothing personal word of the day today is Tuesday June the 8th 2021 and the word of

the day is 39 because that's what Jared Kellinick is hitting 039. No, I'm just

kidding. 39 is the word of the day because Jared Kellinick isn't an 0 for 39

slump. Let's rewind. I think we should start that over. Okay, ready? Here we go.

8 10 69 39 nothing personal word of the day today is Tuesday June 8th 2021 39

because Jared Kellinick of the Seattle Mariners is in an 0 for 39 slump. 0 for 39

is not easy. You could get a duck fart. You could get a ground ball against the

shift. You could lay down a bunch when you are in a large long slump. We would sit

with the player and talk about ways just to get a hit just to get on base not

with a walk not with the pass ball not with a call thirds right dropped. Just get

yourself a hit anything change the approach. The reason why is that baseball is a

hugely mental game. Do you remember Jared Kellinick? He is the guy who was the top

prospect traded by the Mets for Robinson Knoen Edwin Diaz. He was the camp

misprospect for the Mariners. He's the same prospect for the president of the

Mariners. Kevin Mayther, Kevin Mather spoke about giving a speech that they were

purposefully going to hold him down. By the way, other people don't speak English.

Some of his foreign-born players and then he got fired. Then the Mariners did

not call up Kellinick to start the season even though in theory he could have

been ready. But then on May 13th, they did call him up. Is this ringing a bell

anybody? So Kellinick gets brought up on May 13th. He's a lot of fanfare. He's

got his own cleats made. He's coming in as an immediate superstar. He hits a

home run in a second game, I think. Maybe his first game. I think it was a second

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