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05-31-2006, 10:12 AM
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Everytime i watch sports center, this year or last, Swish is hitting a hmerun.. i remember a few years ago doing the OSU Baseball camp and breaking down film with him in the Woody Hayes center |
05-31-2006, 10:18 AM
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[censored] FKA and Graham Harrell
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Great article. Swisher is a trip.
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05-31-2006, 10:39 AM
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The brownest of the brown liquors
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It's always great to read an interesting story that makes me like a player even more. Plus, he's powering me into first place in my fantasy league.  |
06-08-2006, 07:02 AM
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Why so serious?
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Dispatch
6/8/06
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A’s Swisher alters mind-set
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Scott Priestle
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
CLEVELAND — After a frustrating rookie season with the Oakland A’s, former Ohio State standout Nick Swisher returned to Columbus last winter and worked out with A.J. Hawk, Bobby Carpenter, Anthony Schlegel and Nick Mangold as they prepared for the NFL draft.
"I always wanted to be a football player back in high school," Swisher said, "so I train like one."
He said it was obvious during the workouts that he was the baseball player of the group — "those guys are ridiculous," he said with a laugh — and it has been just as obvious in the first two months of the season that he chose the right career path.
Swisher entered a game last night against the Indians ranked among the American League leaders with 16 home runs, a .587 slugging percentage, 33 walks and 48 runs.
The turnaround from last season has been sparked by a decidedly baseball mind-set: Unlike in football, the season is too long to let emotions linger from game to game.
"You tend to want to treat it like a life-and-death situation, and it’s not," Swisher said. "You can’t let your highs get too high and your lows get too low. This game is so mental."
He said last season "not only beat me down, it kicked my butt and broke my legs. It was such an emotional roller-coaster, so many ups and downs."
Swisher entered the season as a leading candidate for American League rookie of the year and ended it with a .236 average. He credited new teammate Frank Thomas for helping him maintain an emotional balance this season.
"He’s my mentor," Swisher said. "We talk about everything."
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07-13-2006, 08:02 PM
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Haaaang on Sloopy, Sloopy Hang on!! O.. H.. I.. O.
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Just saw him homer vs. Boston. #21 on the season for Nick.
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07-29-2006, 07:07 PM
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Swisher is having a great year! He leads Oakland with 72 runs and is second on the team in HRs (one behind Frank Thomas).
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07-29-2006, 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by OSUsushichic
Swisher is having a great year! He leads Oakland with 72 runs and is second on the team in HRs (one behind Frank Thomas).
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I guess if you have to be second to someone, The Big Hurt is a good choice. | |
