This is the point at which I usually become frustrated and abandon my plan or in the past, I might have gotten so resentful and self righteous that I may not have even been aware that I abandoned my goal!

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After two or three passes a player would be scythed down and in England I think the match would have been abandoned.

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"I've even been pitched for wells that have already been plugged and abandoned, " he says.

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