SPORTS STAFF
Holding onto a 1-0 lead in the top of the third, starter Chrisopher L. Vaughan ?12 found himself in a bases-loaded jam, pitching on a frigid Tuesday afternoon against Worcester Polytechnic Institute. This is the type of situation when dugout chatter tends to pick up. Dugout chatter is a rhythmic composition of the digits of the player?s numbers (2 and 8, in the case of Vaughan), a disyllabic nickname (Vaughanie), and exhortations like ?here we go? or ?battle.? The presence and intensity of the chatter matters far more than the content. As such, heads turn when someone from the dugout artfully weaves in the suggestion that Vaughan should actually ?have fun? and that, in fact, ?baseball is fun.?
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