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- noun baseball A
pitch that is not afastball orcurveball ; often achange-up .
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Examples
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Plus if you want the last word, just say so, nobody wants to deal with your slowball replies.
A friendly suggestion to former McCain campaign staffers. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Surely we already know which communities are most likely to slowball the process — - where are the Dems the strongest in MA?
Gov Deval Patrick (D, MA) just gave the GOP three more House seats. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2010
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Maybe I have heard the O bomb one too many times just throw a happy slowball platitude out there and feel like I should cheer like a 15 year old at a basketball game.
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But in the larger picture, I will simply not tee up a slowball about my life for one of the meaner conservatives to blast out of the park.
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I still don't see why the Wright scandal is "an awfully high slowball."
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I plan on answering Matt's question from the previous blog comments, because god knows I'll bite on any topic you guys might bring up (although methinks Matt is lobbing an awfully high slowball) but I've got an early flight home in the morning, and I've already wasted two hours trying to figure out why my MacBook Pro isn't waking up when I want it to.
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The reason I call Matt's question a high slowball is because Matt is a better study of history than he lets on.
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The reason I call Matt's question a high slowball is because Matt is a better study of history than he lets on.
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I plan on answering Matt's question from the previous blog comments, because god knows I'll bite on any topic you guys might bring up (although methinks Matt is lobbing an awfully high slowball) but I've got an early flight home in the morning, and I've already wasted two hours trying to figure out why my MacBook Pro isn't waking up when I want it to.
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He was a change-of-speeds pitcher, a slowball pitcher.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004
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