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Anyone who has ever spent any length of time in the field for any minimal amount of innings in the game of baseball, or along the bench in the dugout next to the baseball field--and that now includes my daughter Jessica and those like her who insist on playing hardball rather than what is still designated “ girls' softball”--has heard that unique baseball language designed to get the goat of the opposition and/or to encourage the players on your own side.
Matthews' idea of "hardball" (aside from titling his show and his book identically, so every pause for a commercial embeds a book plug) seems to be to yell four half-coherent questions in a row in a querulous, Bostonian tenor.
On the LAT opinion page, James DeLong, general counsel for the National Legal Center, writes that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's findings of fact offer much proof that Microsoft deals rough with competitors, but virtually none that these hardball tactics harm consumers.
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