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“What’s a southpaw?” – Karin Kinsella, Field of Dreams

My five-year-old daughter and I cozied into our seats about 15 minutes before game time.  They weren’t the best seats in the house – not that there’s a bad seat at Riverwalk Stadium – but for the next six or seven minutes, our spots in section 104, row A, seats 15 & 16 were prime viewing territory for watching Jake McGee warm up prior to his start against Tennessee Thursday night.  He was throwing on the near rubber, too, which made it look like we were nearly standing in the batter’s box against the Biscuits’ fireballing lefty, who would later reach 95 on Riverwalk’s “notoriously slow” radar gun.  I sat there in quiet amazement as McGee, who will almost undoubtedly (barring injury) be in the majors no later than next season, mixed in some breaking stuff to go along with the old number one, all of which unfolded no further than six feet from where we were sitting.

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