my grandmother gave me as a gift, "When I was ten, not a bicycle, not a baseball mitt or a bat, she gave me a framed engraving of the derringer pistol that John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate the president.

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If I'm running through the street alone with a baseball bat smashing through windows, it's me and I know it's me.

如果我自己一个人跑在街上,手里拿着球棒砸窗户，我知道责任在我身上。

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And right off the bat you notice that I am making a huge assumption here.

在你交卷的时候,你正好注意到我在这里做了一个重要的假设。

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We'll bat first. I'm the one with the wicked curveball.

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