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🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | Once upon a time there was a boy named Luke, and Luke loved to play baseball. |
0:12.0 | Luke was six years old and he played baseball for his local Little League team. |
0:17.0 | Whenever he got up to the plate, sometimes he would hit the ball really well. |
0:22.0 | And sometimes he would just nick it and sometimes it was a total miss. And when Luke missed the |
0:27.8 | ball, he would feel frustrated and disappointed and even kind of mad. Ah, why couldn't he have |
0:34.5 | hit that ball? That was his chance and it just flew right by. |
0:38.9 | Luke never liked striking out because he always wanted to make the most of every chance to hit the |
0:44.0 | ball, but sometimes it just didn't work out. One day, Luke and his dad were at the store |
0:50.2 | and they were walking through the sports section and Luke saw a beautiful baseball bat. |
0:56.6 | It almost felt like it was calling out to him. |
1:00.2 | Luke, pick me up. |
1:03.5 | So Luke walked up to it and he picked that thing up and he gave it a few test swings. |
1:09.2 | And it was perfect. |
1:11.9 | He just had this feeling that if he got up to the plate with this baseball bat, |
1:17.3 | everything would be different. |
1:19.6 | If he swung with this thing, he couldn't miss. |
1:22.9 | But then Luke looked at the price tag and saw it was way, way too expensive. |
1:28.4 | He showed the bat to his dad and his dad said, |
1:31.7 | ooh, yikes. I don't know about that, Luke. |
1:35.8 | So Luke just hung his head, realizing he'd never be able to get this thing. |
1:41.3 | And he and his dad walked out of the store and went home. Later that week, |
1:47.3 | when Luke got home from school, he got out of the car and walked to the door and he saw something |
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