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Wherever I Wind Up choose

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[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 58: While most of my friends meet with their parents and go out for dinner or dessert, I am a tagalong.
at tag-a-long, n.
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 183: My shoulder’s barking and [...] I spend a few weeks on the disabled list.
at bark, v.2
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 196: Mostly in that first meeting I bob and weave and give him inauthentic boilerplate and platitudes.
at bob and weave (v.) under bob, v.3
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 19: [H]e went from being a dad who would do everything with his son to a dad who more or less checked out.
at check out, v.1
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 61: Often I crash with friends who live right in Green Hills [...] but I feel funny asking them if I can stay over again.
at crash (out), v.
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 40: I cuss under my breath. Not loud, not a bad cussword, but an audible obscenity, no doubt.
at cuss-word (n.) under cuss, n.2
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 170: [T]hat weirdo pitch we throw. [...] You just can’t trust it. Because it’s a dadgum knuckleball.
at dad-gum, adj.
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 160: I need to learn what I can from this disaster and make dang sure I am better next time.
at dang, adv.
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 11: It’s hard to get baseball fans in Texas to boo you, but I have done it, with a pitching line that isn’t just bad, but epically bad.
at epically (adv.) under epic, adj.
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 5: When you spend seven seasons in the same minor-league location [...] you’re not on what you’d call the fast track.
at fast track, n.
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 107: I’m not so naïve to think the argument will fly.
at fly, v.
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 40: I cuss under my breath. [...] Now she doesn’t appreciate my tone. Come with me, young man. You are going to regret your garbage mouth.
at garbage mouth (n.) under garbage, n.
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 17: Maybe my parents are too busy or too tired from work, or maybe they just don’t belong together and they both know it. They grit it out for as long as they can.
at grit (it) out (v.) under grit, n.1
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 234: This kind of shame and pain no one can out run [sic] [...] I have nothing left to do but walk into the pain, take it on.
at walk into, v.
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 139: [T]here’s no denying the scope of the wreckage caused by needles around baseball, by the so-called steroid era, and by all the artificially fueled feats that came with them. [...] How many long balls hit by juicers would’ve died on the track.
at juice, v.
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 229: Joe Dillon is a Sounds teammate, a corner infielder with big muscles and a lunch-pail work ethic.
at lunchpail (n.) under lunch, n.
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 2: The word ‘phenom’ [...] —a word that anoints you as the embodiment of hope, someone whose youthful gifts are going to bring joy and victories for years to come.
at phenom, n.
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 290: People keep waiting for me to revert to my retread form, for the league to catch up to me.
at retread, n.
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 116: My first full year as a professional ballplayer [...] I am ready to rock.
at rock, v.3
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 113: I pick out a rock and the setting, and pray that it’s not a fake.
at rock, n.
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 67: Mr. Poe says: The cost of the glove has been taken care of, young man. [...] Excuse me, what did you say? The glove is yours. It’s all squared away.
at square away (v.) under square, v.
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 323: I could easily have let these things turn my season into a train wreck, but I managed them well.
at train wreck, n.2
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 170: When Tim Wakefield or I get roughed up, it’s that weirdo pitch we throw.
at weirdo, adj.
[US] R.A. Dickey Wherever I Wind Up 39: [I]n a school where smoke billows out of the bathroom and pregnant girls walk the hallways, you don’t want people thinking you are wimpy.
at wimpy, adj.
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