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I was listening to a Freakinomics podcast the other day and they were talking about “booing”. You know, ref makes a bad call and you boo? Ok that’s not the point.
It was a story about booing that got me.
Johnnie LeMaster played 12 seasons in the majors, mostly with the San Francisco Giants. He was a shortstop with a career average of around 220. Nothing special but an all around good player to have on your team.
This is a story I found in the book Practically Radical, another reason you should practically go buy it. Seriously, it’s a game changer. This story had me tearing up. Read on, you’ll see why.
Last Saturday morning I was woken at 9:45 by my doorbell. No one comes to our house that early, it could be an emergency I thought to myself, so I staggered out of my room. My room mate, in the same state (squinting eyes, wearing the pants from last night) was a step a head of me and opened the door. To our dismay we found no one, just a little, old man leaving the yard going to the neighbors house. We thought nothing of it except for how mad we were at this little, old man that got us with the ol’ ring and run trick. Back to sleep.
If you want to get your point across tell me a story. Stories, fable and urban legends have all been around for years for a reason, they are easy to remember. History’s told in stories; our ancestors told parables to pass on knowledge. Think about how a chilling urban legend will be remembered for years, how does this happen? It’s a story.
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