People were grooving on balconies, enjoying live music on the Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall and slipping prayer notes into the Western Wall.

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It is not uncommon to encounter a girl in a muumuu singing into a carrot, a Rastafarian grooving on the sidewalk or a pigtailed granny cruising around on a low-rider bike.

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Instead of grooving on the likes of ravioli with lambs' sweetbreads or rump of Dornoch hogget, we're in a room that seems to have been decorated by a serial killer with a penchant for expensive malts, choosing from a menu of a thousand and one open sandwiches.

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So while the other Yankee starters will be grooving fastballs down the middle and working on their changeups in these meaningless spring games, Hughes will be firing bullets, trying to show that his arm has the power and menace it held in 2009 and 2010.

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