{"id":9016,"date":"2019-04-04T14:59:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T20:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/?p=9016"},"modified":"2022-06-14T08:48:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T14:48:22","slug":"yu-darvishs-comeback-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/yu-darvishs-comeback-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"yu darvish’s confident comeback in english"},"content":{"rendered":"

major league baseball 2019 is ON. here’s an elt<\/strong> perspective on the new season, courtesy of pitcher yu darvish <\/strong>who signed a big contract with the <\/strong><\/span> in 2018, and then had a disappointing season.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"yu<\/a><\/p>\n

yu darvish<\/em><\/h5>\n

jesse rogers<\/strong> on espn.com that<\/p>\n

darvish pitched in only eight games last season and struggled<\/em> to get out of several mid-inning<\/em> jams<\/em>.<\/h4>\n

<\/em><\/strong> means darvish had problems<\/em>. baseball games consist of 9 innings<\/em><\/strong>. a jam<\/strong><\/em> is a difficult moment<\/em> when the pitcher is in danger of allowing runs to score. a different application of the same definition can be found in the song born in the u.s.a<\/em><\/strong> by bruce springsteen<\/strong><\/a>; not a patriotic song, by the way. the lyrics are critical of the treatment that the generation of americans who fought in the vietnam war received. listen at 1:00 for<\/p>\n

got in a little hometown jam<\/em><\/h4>\n

the idea is that many young men joined the military and in vietnam because they got in trouble<\/em> with the law<\/p>\n